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Ridge says technology could help fight smuggling on border
AZCentral ^ | Dec. 3, 2003 | Associated Press

Posted on 12/03/2003 3:19:16 PM PST by yonif

Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles and other technology could help curb smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday.

Ridge said such technology could reduce illegal immigration and cut deaths among border-crossers. Many migrants die of heat exposure and in accidents while crossing the harsh Arizona desert.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; immigrantlist; ridge; smuggling; tech
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1 posted on 12/03/2003 3:19:17 PM PST by yonif
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To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..
ping
2 posted on 12/03/2003 3:21:42 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: yonif
It might also be helpful to remove the "Vote For El Democratos" booths from the border along with the carnival barkers that accompany them and proclaim the good news of drivers licenses and welfare for all!
3 posted on 12/03/2003 3:24:03 PM PST by Jaysun (Outlaw the word "fair")
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To: Jaysun
...good news of drivers licenses...

Look again, Arnold won.

4 posted on 12/03/2003 3:27:06 PM PST by PRND21
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To: yonif
This is just so much horse sh*t. Last week a whole passel of illegals, a/k/a/ wetbacks, were camped out on Congress' door with their "demands". And what did Ridge et al. do about it?
Nada

Question: If when they are in your capitol city, poking their fingers in your eye, you don't ship 'em back, why should we believe you intend to go traipsing across the desert looking for 'em?
5 posted on 12/03/2003 3:28:22 PM PST by John Beresford Tipton
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Ridge says technology could help fight smuggling on border

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So could building a wall and shotgunning anyone seen climbing over it.

6 posted on 12/03/2003 3:37:01 PM PST by RLK
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To: RLK
Worked for Hitler.
7 posted on 12/03/2003 3:38:44 PM PST by PRND21
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To: John Beresford Tipton
This is just so much horse sh*t.

Agreed. Cover story for surveilling us all.

8 posted on 12/03/2003 3:42:41 PM PST by GluteusMax
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9 posted on 12/03/2003 3:43:54 PM PST by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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"...that is human trafficking," he (Ridge) said.

That's the closest yet I've heard anyone come to calling it what I call it -- the slave trade.

10 posted on 12/03/2003 3:48:50 PM PST by HiJinx (Go with Courage, go with Honor, go in God's Grace. Come home when the job's done. We'll be here.)
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To: yonif
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles and other technology could help curb smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico border, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday.

Thank you Tom Ridge, you useless git, for stating the obvious. Didnt American Border Patrol show this to be the case several months ago?

Turn up your d$mn hearing aids you fool!

11 posted on 12/03/2003 4:07:55 PM PST by ikka
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The US Border Patrol used RPV's several years ago. They were given up in favor of static cameras. Now, DHS is looking at using RPV's to cover dead space and to follow smuggling loads that can't be monitored by static cameras. There is also a rumor floating around DHS, that after manning the northern border properly, Border Patrol agents will be sent into the interior to perform city patrols.
12 posted on 12/03/2003 4:29:58 PM PST by Ajnin
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To: PRND21
...Look again, Arnold won.

Tis True.
13 posted on 12/03/2003 4:30:21 PM PST by Jaysun (Outlaw the word "fair")
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To: HiJinx
"Slave trade" You nailed it.

Toml Ridge is one of those could of, should of, would of guys after 155 deaths.
14 posted on 12/03/2003 5:21:34 PM PST by texastoo (What a Continent!!!)
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To: ikka
Thank you Tom Ridge, you useless git, for stating the obvious. Didnt American Border Patrol show this to be the case several months ago? Turn up your d$mn hearing aids you fool!

BUMP to that!

We've been screaming here for years in the SW about this invasion, and more vocally about it since 9-11. And they're just now thinking about the obvious!?

Then again, we're talking the gub'mit. I guess since we've actually gotten a looksee at the problem over 2.25 years since 9-11, that's record time for them.

15 posted on 12/03/2003 8:43:14 PM PST by kstewskis (84 more days until Lent and "The Passion" is released...and no I am NOT giving up Mel for Lent!)
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To: Ajnin
There is also a rumor floating around DHS, that after manning the northern border properly, Border Patrol agents will be sent into the interior to perform city patrols.

I hope they'll be able to make it out just of Phoenix and Tuscon for starters...

16 posted on 12/03/2003 8:44:45 PM PST by kstewskis (84 more days until Lent and "The Passion" is released...and no I am NOT giving up Mel for Lent!)
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To: kstewskis
If they make it out of Arizona, I can recommend Santa Ana, California as their next stop. They can bag at least 50,000 of them right there if they want to. After that they can hit the jackpot in L.A.
17 posted on 12/03/2003 8:55:30 PM PST by janetgreen
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To: yonif
This is from a chump who says our borders cannot be sealed between legal crossings "for political and cultural reasons".

Do I see a glimmer of rational thought here?
18 posted on 12/04/2003 9:13:40 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: janetgreen
If they make it out of Arizona, I can recommend Santa Ana, California as their next stop. They can bag at least 50,000 of them right there if they want to.

I'll hope and wish for that for Santa Ana.

AND hope that B-1 Bob Dornan gets his job back as congress-critter for that district!

19 posted on 12/04/2003 5:11:49 PM PST by kstewskis (83 more days until Lent and "The Passion" is released...and no I am NOT giving up Mel for Lent!)
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To: kstewskis
Loretta Sanchez stole that election from Dornan. The illegal alien votes helped her!
20 posted on 12/04/2003 10:42:30 PM PST by janetgreen
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