Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Sybeck1
I wonder how many coyotes and rattlesnakes trip those?

Actually, about 30 years ago I worked for a company that built airborne night vision equipment. We made a call on US Border Patrol headquarters to show how our stuff could help them. Even then they estimated about 3 million illegals were entering each year. But they had no money to buy our equipment because they had spent their entire hardware budget on leftover seismic sensors built for the Ho Chi Minh trail. Yeah, they knew all about coyotes (4 legged) and armadillos along that stretch of border. So many alarms the system was completely swamped.

16 posted on 04/04/2005 1:00:05 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies ]


To: 19th LA Inf
Actually, about 30 years ago I worked for a company that built airborne night vision equipment. We made a call on US Border Patrol headquarters to show how our stuff could help them. Even then they estimated about 3 million illegals were entering each year.

30 years * 3 million/year = 90 million illegals? Thats about a quarter of the population??

61 posted on 04/04/2005 3:29:14 PM PDT by rmmcdaniell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson