Border Cameras Produce Little in Two Years
The Texas Border Watch Program — the web-based border camera surveillance project Gov. Rick Perry launched in 2006 — is meeting its goals for the first time since its inception. But that's only because the targets have been scaled back so dramatically that the program hardly resembles the wide-reaching virtual border neighborhood watch Perry initially promised.
During his 2006 re-election campaign, Perry promised to launch a virtual neighborhood-watch program on the border, allowing internet viewers to troll for illegal crossers. He said he would spend $5 million and line the border with "hundreds" of cameras. Lawmakers didn't go for the ...
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Luis Ruiz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
sounds fiscally responsible to me
Melanie Erwin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Boeing took $698 million from us for a 'virtual fence' that doesn't work. They need to fix the glitches on their own dime or they need to give us our money back.
Debra Wiecek via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow. Funds well spent. And we are in a deficit because?..... PLEASE do not send this person to Washington; just vote him out of politics.