TX: Emergency beacons aid immigrants in Texas desert

Caller-Times ^ | 3/7/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

FALFURRIAS — A pair of emergency beacons has been placed in South Texas to help stranded illegal immigrants as they try to head north from the border along a popular desert trail, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

The beacons, .. are designed to alert authorities if an immigrant or anyone else finds themselves in distress in the rugged terrain.

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The beacons have instructions in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, ...

Border Patrol officials already have placed 18 beacons in the desert in Arizona.

[YellowRoseofTx]

WHO is responsible for this??? Anyone know?

Home Land Security

[BellStar]

GAO REPORTS>>>>Reports in recent years have indicated that increasing numbers of migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally die while crossing the southwest border. The Border Patrol implemented the Border Safety Initiative (BSI) in 1998 with the intention of reducing injuries and preventing deaths among migrants that attempt to cross the border illegally.

Earth to GAO...increasing numbers of US citizens are dieing at the hands of these invaders and no GAO reports about this? Why not implement a plan to SECURE OUR BORDERS! Kill the invaders!

[DportM]

Not for nothing and call me suspicious and / or paranoid but...anyone want to bet that those fancy buzzers will soon be used by narco traffickers to: 1) distract working Border Patrol Agents away from their true smuggling routes, and; 2) Set up some poor rookie Border Patrol Agent who will respond to the buzzer expecting to find some distressed documentally-challenged guest-laborers and will, instead, find the business end of some superior firepower.