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.
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