TEXAS BORDER PATROL GUNBOAT WITH
TRIPLE 300 HORSEPOWER OUTBOARD MOTORS
Texas Uses Multipronged Approach
To Securing Its Border
EXCERPT:
A report in the New York Times on August 6 spotlighted the beefing up of the mission of Texas game wardens, who have gone from catching poachers and drunk boaters to apprehending smugglers and human traffickers. While the game wardens have no authority to enforce federal immigration law, they can make arrests for violations of state law, including human trafficking.
On the border, Texas uses helicopters with infrared technology. It has installed cameras activated by motion detection monitors on private ranches, which are monitored remotely. Texas has also a $7.4-million high-altitude surveillance airplane. State officials said that the use of the high-tech helicopters and the surveillance airplane to patrol the border has been responsible for more than 13,000 arrests, $87 million worth of drug seizures, and the rescue of 137 people.
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