Posted on 02/18/2017 9:20:26 AM PST by doug from upland
In a proposal likely to add to the angry debate about illegal immigration in California, a well-known scientist is calling for the U.S. Border Patrol to sprinkle fluorescent dust at the U.S.-Mexico border in order to track down illegal border-crossers.
The low-cost, low-tech plan would improve border enforcement dramatically and pose no danger to people "tagged" by the glowing dust, according to an article in today's edition of Science magazine.
"Twilight Zone" feeling
But the somewhat surreal, politically charged image of the U.S. government exposing illegal immigrants to chemicals, then tracking them down with lasers and ultraviolet lights provoked criticism from immigrants' advocates.
"It's incredible," said activist Roberto Martinez of the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego. "It's like something out of the Twilight Zone. The symbolism is that these are not humans, that these are insects to be sprayed."
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials reacted cautiously to the proposal. Steve McDonald, a spokesman for the INS in Washington, D.C., said he was aware of the article but knows of no such plans or studies by federal authorities.
"There's obvious concerns that would have to be looked at: toxicity, impact on the environment," McDonald said. "While we would look at all possibilities to enhance our enforcement operations, we look at them all in the perspective of the impact on people, the environment and the community. It's nothing we would take lightly."
The author of the article is Bill Wattenburg - a respected physicist, inventor and radio talk-show host based at California State University, Chico. Wattenburg said that he and the editors of Science magazine know full well that they are advancing a provocative idea at a sensitive time. California's Proposition 187, a ballot measure proposing tough immigration enforcement measures, has already intensified the controversy statewide.
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you can do the same thing with urine and black light.
Not sure that even our side would approve of spraying them with urine.
“The low-cost, low-tech plan would improve border enforcement dramatically...”
Landmines along the border would be the lower cost, lower tech plan. If that is the priority. Nobody attempts crossing the Korean border. hint hint
“...and pose no danger to people “tagged” by the glowing dust”
oh, never mind.
The problem with illegal alien “pixie dust” is that it could be transferred to, and thus contaminating, legal citizens leading to their detention.
This problem is similar to the use of color-coded plastic microchips used in commercial explosives to identify those used at a bomb crime scene. Because of the use of commercial explosives in various legitimate mining and other operations, these microchips have spread or beyond the original locations.
Spraying liquid ultra-violet dyes that invisibly stain (except under UV light) the skin or clothing might be considered, if the dye had a limited (month or two) lifetime before fading away.
This is just absurd only intended to inflame stupid SJWs.
When is the seattletimes going to run an expose on the dihydrogenmonoxide we are exposed to if they are soo interested in chemical exposure? Perhaps they should run a special on the government control of the atmosphere forcing us to breathe 70% nitrogen. What are they doing with the oxygen they save by diluting it?
How about all that ferrous oxide they are causing to show up on my tools and car? I see white airplanes flying overhead every day probably spraying this stuff in chemtrails. Even the sunsets are red now.
OMG we are all exposed to "chemicals" and the government approves it. Impeach Trump NOW!!
There is already available UV tattoo ink that is safe for human use. Knock'em unconscious, and add an invisible overlay to one of their existing tats.
50 cal works better
Cheapest of all is to declare a free fire zone extending inward 500 yards from the border and giving citizens carte blanche to enforce the no illegal entry policy. It wouldn’t take very many shootings for word to get out that trying to cross illegally is a terrible idea.
Claymores. While not particularly “cheap”, they are certainly effective. Three or four strategically planted and going off should do the trick.
Why would the government have to do it? Couldn’t some citizen(s) just do it themselves?
I believe the article is from 1994 as there is not such entity in the US called the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Speaking from an enforcement standpoint it was a stupid idea then and it still is.
They already have sensors on the trails around the border. All you would have to do would be to add a sprayer at ankle level, or add a sprayer onto the trucks that drag the drag road at the fence. The problem with just targeting feet is that illegals will quickly adapt when they figure out where the tagant is being deployed.
Yes!! Do IT!! Fluorescent dust is excellent and does no harm. Why should those scum bags not be seen?
you can do the same thing with urine and black light.
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