Carl C
04-01-2009, 07:35 AM
Better face Canada next time you take a wizz off the side of your boat:
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Border Patrol to install 11 surveillance towers in Detroit
Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press
Washington -- The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, relying on technology to assist agents stationed along the 4,000-mile northern stretch.
The government awarded the $20 million project to Boeing Co., the same company responsible for the so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexican border that has come under criticism for faulty technology.
Eleven of the towers are being installed in Detroit and five in Buffalo, N.Y., to help monitor water traffic between Canada and the United States along Lake St. Clair and the Niagara River.
At present, Border Patrol agents are posted along the river to keep an eye on water traffic.
The cameras will be used to zoom in on a boat that has left Canada, for instance, and watch where it goes and what it does, said Mark Borkowski, executive director of the Secure Border Initiative at Customs and Border Protection.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Border Patrol to install 11 surveillance towers in Detroit
Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press
Washington -- The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, relying on technology to assist agents stationed along the 4,000-mile northern stretch.
The government awarded the $20 million project to Boeing Co., the same company responsible for the so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexican border that has come under criticism for faulty technology.
Eleven of the towers are being installed in Detroit and five in Buffalo, N.Y., to help monitor water traffic between Canada and the United States along Lake St. Clair and the Niagara River.
At present, Border Patrol agents are posted along the river to keep an eye on water traffic.
The cameras will be used to zoom in on a boat that has left Canada, for instance, and watch where it goes and what it does, said Mark Borkowski, executive director of the Secure Border Initiative at Customs and Border Protection.