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2005-08-31 Home Front: WoT

U.S. buys high-tech drones to surveil southern border

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Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-31 13:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! Same great promises when they launched the blimps over the border twenty odd years ago...

Posted by borgboy 2005-08-31 16:54|| 2005-08-31 16:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I was under the impression that the aerostats were meant to provide radar coverage against small planes, and not to deal with migrant workers in the first place.

Posted by Abdominal_Snowman 2005-08-31 18:36|| 2005-08-31 18:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "You fellas seen any eelegals cross today?"

"Oh, heck yeah! Sergeant! We been watchin' them on all eighteen monitors and they floodin' across like brown water!"

"Ah said, 'You fellas seen any eelegals cross today that means that you all would have to git up off'n yer lazy asses an' go out there in the heat of the sun and round 'em up lahk chickens?' "

"Uh...No! Sergeant! Ain't seen NO eelegals today. Nosiree. Not a dang one."

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-31 18:57|| 2005-08-31 18:57|| Front Page Top

#4 That is what they are for,AS.Wonder how a JSTAR would work(JSTAR is the ground search equivlant of AWACKS).

Posted by raptor 2005-08-31 19:02|| 2005-08-31 19:02|| Front Page Top

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