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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Border Patrol Blimps

Customs and Border Protection is gearing up to test some new high tech border surveillance: military blimps. CBP hopes they'll help find drug smugglers and people crossing the Mexico border illegally. The Wall Street Journal reports the military will test the $1 million blimps in the next few weeks. If all goes well, it could just give them to CBP free of charge. This is part of a bigger CBP attempt to revitalize its high-tech border security plan. Last year, Homeland Security pulled the plug on the troubled SBInet, the $1 billioin virtual fence of video cameras and radars.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...


So instead of keeping them out with a fence...we will be taking their pictures comming into the country accross the border?