Watching the border

The results were few but the $200,000 test convinced state officials that the dozen or so Web-connected cameras set up on the Texas-Mexico border last fall should be expanded.

The "monthlong test…of a Web site allowing ordinary citizens [to] monitor the border via live video resulted in [almost 28 million hits, 14,800 emails, and] the apprehension of 10 undocumented immigrants, one drug bust and one interrupted smuggling route."

Gov. Rick Perry wants the Legislature, which convenes Tuesday, to spend $5 million on the effort.

0 responses to “Watching the border

  1. NOT A VERY GOOD PERCENTAGE WITH THE MILLIONS COMING ACROSS. WHAT IS IT WITH THE BIRDS IN AUSTIN. C HENEY DOWN THERE HUNTING?

  2. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley

    Caps Lock key stuck, Joe? Don’t know what you refer to re “the birds.” Explain, please.

  3. Unknown's avatar Dick Stanley

    OK, I figured out the birds. See post “Those dead birds.”