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Border Security Amendment Contains Detailed Technology Deployment Plan

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

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Border Security Amendment Contains Detailed Technology Deployment Plan

Existing fixed tower surveillance system installed by Boeing on southwest border under former SBINet program. Photo: CBP

An amendment that is likely to pass this week during debate on a Senate bill to reform immigration policies contains a detailed list of the various surveillance systems and their numbers that will have to be deployed to obtain 100 percent surveillance of the nation’s southern border, one of the conditions that needs to be met for illegal immigrants currently in the United States to achieve a path to citizenship. The Senate on Monday evening voted 67-27 to invoke cloture…

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