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U.S. Vigilantes Test Drones on Mexican Border
WashingtonPost.com ^
| Tuesday, May 13, 2003; 7:40 PM
| Deborah Tedford
Posted on 05/13/2003 6:33:51 PM PDT by Reagan is King
Reuters Tuesday, May 13, 2003; 7:40 PM
By Deborah Tedford
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - An Arizona vigilante group is testing homemade "drone" reconnaissance planes on the U.S.-Mexican border to monitor illegal immigrants entering the United States in lonely desert areas.
Glenn Spencer, head of the American Border Patrol vigilante group, said on Tuesday the group has been testing two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for about a month and plans to have a fleet making passes over the border by early July.
"We want to show how the application of this technology can solve the border problem," Spencer told Reuters.
Police and residents say they are aware of the drones, similar to unmanned U.S. military aircraft used in Iraq.
Hundreds of thousands of illegal Mexican immigrants cross the border in search of work every year. Three vigilante groups, some of them armed, have sprung up in Arizona in the last three years to monitor the border and hand over any illegal immigrants they find to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
The groups say U.S. authorities allow too many Mexicans to flout U.S. immigration law. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, some have also said unrestricted immigration poses an unacceptable security risk.
Area residents say the drones invade their privacy and foster poor cross-border relations.
"The Mexican populations along the border are indignant," said Miguel Escobar, a Mexican Foreign Ministry official based in Arizona.
Ray Borane, mayor of the border town of Douglas, Ariz., said the group's activities are racist.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: americanborderpatrol; border; domesticdrones; drones; dronesabp; dronesbp; dronesus; immigrantlist; mexican; patriots; vigilante
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To: DLfromthedesert
They're starting to wise up a bit. Lately I've been finding lots of empty packets of powdered "Electrolit" and a pediatric version whose name escapes me at the moment.
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posted on
05/13/2003 9:55:57 PM PDT
by
JackelopeBreeder
("Push to test." < Click! > "Release to detonate." Oops...)
To: JackelopeBreeder
And far too many disposable diapers and baby blankets. Scares the sh!t outta me and the heat isn't even here yet.
62
posted on
05/13/2003 9:57:44 PM PDT
by
JackelopeBreeder
("Push to test." < Click! > "Release to detonate." Oops...)
To: roob
Homeland Security is looking at using drones to patrol the borders. But I suppose by the time they run all the tests and have 100's of Congressional hearings it'll be too late. After that they'll decide it's time to fund "midnight basketball" again instead of protecting the borders.
To: madfly
Thanks a lurker.
64
posted on
05/13/2003 10:50:36 PM PDT
by
oceanperch
((Self Appointed Gate Keeper for the SCOW/CABAL Estate))
To: Reagan is King
Written by Deborah Tedford, for the Washing Maching Post, in Monterrey, Mexico.
From the pigs hot tub of course!
To: Major_Risktaker
That's the idea! Plenty of warnings, just to be fair.
66
posted on
05/13/2003 11:42:51 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: madfly
I know. I used to put up campaign signs with him.
Mahoney directed his campaign to take votes from Matt, not Janet.
67
posted on
05/14/2003 1:29:15 AM PDT
by
Newkid
To: Reagan is King
This guy doesn't deserve to mayor of the town dump with statements like that. Are the liberals moving to Arizona?
I think the only Republicans left are the retirees.
68
posted on
05/14/2003 3:01:22 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(If we are deemed 'far right wingers', does that make them 'left side wrongers'?)
To: Major_Risktaker
Better make it in Spanish ;)
69
posted on
05/14/2003 3:06:06 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(If we are deemed 'far right wingers', does that make them 'left side wrongers'?)
To: walkingman
Most med advice frown on 'hot beverages' because they most often are caffeinated and thus diuretic.
Question? Why would you want a diuretic when your dehydrated? Its like the moron MD who gave my mother diuretic when she had dangerous low levels of sodium.
70
posted on
05/14/2003 3:09:35 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(If we are deemed 'far right wingers', does that make them 'left side wrongers'?)
To: Reagan is King
Borane is a nut case. It's racist to keep terrorists, drug dealers, and other criminals from entering this country? Is the buy bought off?
71
posted on
05/14/2003 4:40:31 AM PDT
by
Dante3
(.)
To: Reagan is King
Are the liberals moving to Arizona? Yes ---from Mexico. Most border counties are "blue" on the election map for the obvious reasons.
72
posted on
05/14/2003 5:53:14 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: JackelopeBreeder
And far too many disposable diapers and baby blankets. Scares the sh!t outta me and the heat isn't even here yet. And the ones coming over with the babies and who are pregnant aren't even coming over to work. They are coming to become taxpayer burdens.
73
posted on
05/14/2003 6:00:42 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: Reagan is King
I think these immigration control groups need to neutralize this "racist" spin by the lefties and they need to do so without doing the Trent Lott.
74
posted on
05/14/2003 7:18:41 AM PDT
by
junta
To: Regulator
Yes that is straight out of the Left's handbook and it needs to be stopped, aggressively and without delay and without using the simpering language of the current GOP leadership/elite.
75
posted on
05/14/2003 7:21:19 AM PDT
by
junta
To: Reagan is King
Ask any landholder if the constant "visiting" by hobby pilots is trespassing--they have the right to be there by law. Why not unmanned craft?
76
posted on
05/14/2003 7:23:11 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: DLfromthedesert
Hot water hydrates and satisfies thirst...what are you talking about?
77
posted on
05/14/2003 7:26:43 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
People who are already too hot do NOT need hot water. It just drives their temp up and increases metabolism to a dangerous point; ask my sister, who is a dialysis nurse, who had to take care of some of these people who barely survived, but are permanently damaged.
To: DLfromthedesert
People don't need hot water? Well, I've been in 135 degree heat and my canteen was NOT refridgerated! Idiots!
The human body when it gets above 106=107 - water will NOT help anyway, but the water temp will most likely be cooler than that!
Water is to replenish FLUIDS --- NOT to cool you down. To cool down a human, pour a little on top of the head. That's where the majority of HEAT EXCHANGE takes place.
79
posted on
05/14/2003 8:16:27 AM PDT
by
steplock
( http://www.spadata.com)
To: DLfromthedesert
Good grief, you don't have to drink it hot to satisfy! They can pour it in a cup and wait for it to cool down to drink it...next we'll have to install refrig units for the lawbreakers...
80
posted on
05/14/2003 8:50:34 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
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