CBN News posted a story today about a technology that would make a huge difference along America‘s southern border with Mexico.
The article reports:
Arlington, Texas, is home of the Cowboys stadium, and one of the most technologically advanced municipalities in the country.
CBN News met a man there who developed the security system for the Super Bowl, and may also hold the key to securing the southern border.
“The fence is a wonderful tool if you want to stop wildlife, if you want to stop livestock, if you want to stop somebody for 30 seconds,” Dan Hammons, owner of Hammons Enterprises, explained.
“We think the border needs to be a line in the sand as opposed to a wide area,” he added.
“If a person crawls over that fence or crosses that border illegally, we have a wide array of sensing technologies that will set off an alarm and will turn on a camera on a node tower,” Hammons said. “So you can determine, is it a person, is it a deer, is it a cow.”
“With our system, I’m confident that we are going to detect 100 percent of the people crossing that border illegally,” he boldly claimed.
Mr. Hammons ‘security system costs about $1 million less per mile than the border fence. Because of the bandwidth of his security system, Border Patrol agents would be able to see thousands of video streams covering thousands of miles in real time.
The article at CBN reports the government’s response:
Still, decision makers in Washington have repeatedly turned down Hammons’ ideas.
“They have shut the door in our face,” he said.
“We offered to do this for them for free. We wanted to build a three-mile section of it for free. No cost or obligation to the government, all we wanted was an operational evaluation,” Hammons recalled.
He hinted that the system’s potential may be viewed by some as a political problem.
“We’re going to be able to tell the truth about what’s going on on the border,” Hammons said. “We’re going to be able to show the American public exactly what is happening down there.”
In the meantime, ranchers along Arizona’s border feel like they’re stuck in a war zone.
“Regardless of what Homeland Security and Border Patrol says, the border isn’t as safe as it’s ever been,” Ladd said. “There’s more drugs coming right now than ever before.”
“A guy driving a Border Patrol truck up and down the fence isn’t going to cut it,” he added.
Why is the government ignoring a solution to securing our border that would be both cheaper and more effective?
