Big Money, Fences, and Drones: An Excerpt from Border Insecurity

Big Money, Fences, and Drones: An Excerpt from Border Insecurity: The following is an excerpt from Breitbart Texas’ border security expert and contributing editor Sylvia Longmire’s new book, Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer:

Since the beginning of our government’s efforts to make our southwest border less permeable, there has never been any intention to completely fence the entire two thousand-mile length of it—at least, not with a physical fence. After all, the Secure Fence Act and subsequent legislation only called for seven hundred miles of it in the most highly trafficked areas. But DHS felt it was important to have some sort of surveillance coverage along the unfenced areas. It needed to find a way to achieve this that was cost effective and quick. However, the agency was also painfully aware that it did not possess the in-house expertise to accomplish this, so the outsourcing of our physical border security began.

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