Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Immigration We support the sanctity of human life and a realistic immigration policy. Like it or not, the United States needs immigrants as laborers and as a source of new culture. We support rational policies like a guest worker/return program that embrace the reality of the immigrant population and bring their vision of the American dream back into the legal realm. If this were done, Homeland Security could focus on catching the people who are coming here illegally for reasons other than work.We support harsher penalties for human traffickers who neglect or bring harm to people trying to cross the border. We oppose a border wall as being heavy-handed and expensive, but we do support enhancement of the border surveillance network with innovations like robotic solar airplanes and a garrison tower network. Threats to U.S. security through our borders must be taken seriously by all Americans, but they are not an excuse to destroy our culture and our values of freedom.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
8:44 AM
For example, if all the towers had a solar power system, a program could develop small electric helicopters to fly between towers examining any signs of people moving back and forth. (Infrared is hard in the desert where it is hot, but that doesn't mean it's impossible or valueless, or that other technologies like visual tracking will not come along.)
Hey, they don't have to be robots, the people in the nice solar air-conditioned towers can fly those puppies around remotely within their tower range. Sure gets hot out there.
The key is making a meshed network of these towers through the border region, not just a line of them along the border itself. Then cars and trucks coming to pick people up could be tagged by these surveillance drones if there are not enough border agents to get there in time. That takes imminent domain to use private lands. But a tower and an access road would not impact any rancher's use of their land to any significant degree.
Personally, a border fence makes me feel trapped in a giant U.S. prison as much as it keeps people out. I don't want to live in that kind of world.
modular surveillance towers and future innovation
If the border were protected by this network of surveillance towers, new technology programs could be developed to integrate with it as these innovations are independently developed.For example, if all the towers had a solar power system, a program could develop small electric helicopters to fly between towers examining any signs of people moving back and forth. (Infrared is hard in the desert where it is hot, but that doesn't mean it's impossible or valueless, or that other technologies like visual tracking will not come along.)
Hey, they don't have to be robots, the people in the nice solar air-conditioned towers can fly those puppies around remotely within their tower range. Sure gets hot out there.
The key is making a meshed network of these towers through the border region, not just a line of them along the border itself. Then cars and trucks coming to pick people up could be tagged by these surveillance drones if there are not enough border agents to get there in time. That takes imminent domain to use private lands. But a tower and an access road would not impact any rancher's use of their land to any significant degree.
Personally, a border fence makes me feel trapped in a giant U.S. prison as much as it keeps people out. I don't want to live in that kind of world.
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