Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says unmanned aircraft flights patrolling the Mexican border in south Texas will begin Wednesday in a bid to seek out smuggling activities and improve border security.
Napolitano says in a conference call Monday that the start of the flights out of Corpus Christi means that unmanned aircraft will be providing intelligence to border agents on the ground from the Gulf of Mexico to around El Centro, Calif.
Previously, unmanned aircraft had been used from El Centro through West Texas.
The government has three unmanned aircraft patrolling the southern border and plans to add three more by the beginning of 2011.
Agents say the flights are effective in locating immigrant and drug smugglers.
Will76 posted at 1:57 pm on Mon, Aug 30, 2010.
You mean South Texas? [wink]
AZMomma posted at 4:48 am on Tue, Aug 31, 2010.
East TX? Unless my Rand McNally is flawed, I think E. TX has nothing to do with the Mexican border.
Let's try SOUTH TX, where the border with Mexico begins.
Of course, if Janet really meant E. TX, perhaps that is why the illegals keep getting through. We are protecting ourselves from LA [wink]
Masterrogue666 posted at 6:57 am on Tue, Aug 31, 2010.
I say armed them, and treat anyone that crosses the border, illegally, as a terriost.....