Another Drone Heading to Help Patrol…Texas Border?
- Posted on October 28, 2011 at 7:56pm by
Buck Sexton
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(The Blaze/AP)- A second unmanned drone to patrol the Texas-Mexico border for U.S. Customs and Border Protection is scheduled to arrive in Corpus Christi next week. 
Officials announced in July that Texas would get a second drone to patrol its 1,254-mile border with Mexico. Along with another planned for Arizona, the drone brings CBP’s total to six on the Southwest border. The first drone went up in the sky over texas in June.
The newer Texas drone will be based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi alongside the existing one, which also patrolled the Gulf of Mexico. It will fly reconnaissance and drug interdiction missions in support of U.S.Border Patrol and other federal agencies.
The Predator can fly for 20 hours without refueling, extending by many hours the surveillance capability of a helicopter. Flight crews control the planes remotely.
Given the violence across the border in Mexico, perhaps it is only a matter of time before the drones become fully armed– and fully operational.
Here is a video that gives a good overview of a similar drone program in effect in Arizona, courtesy of Fox News:
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Comments (61)
affinnity
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:50pmMaybe if the government stopped imprisoning border patrol agents they wouldn’t need to spend all this money on armed attack drones. I suspect these drones are to keep U.S. Citizens in and not Illegals out. Be prepared.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on October 30, 2011 at 1:04amYep, if I was a border patrol agent I believe i would be scambling for cover
Report Post »wethepeoplepress
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:19pmIts all about conditioning and then they use it on “YOU”
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. T.P.
I am hard core anti illegal immigration. however, I am now against Everify, Border drones or other means of contol that We the people have no harness on.
Vote Ron Paul or you get what you deserve. Isreal wants Ron Paul in office because he will cut billions in aid to the terrorist while Cain the banker uh hummm or Romny the flipflopping liberal will continue to dole out the $ we are borrowing from China, hello McFly………. Yah, that means YOU….
Report Post »Junter
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 2:19amHave to agree Ron Paul has my families votes.
Report Post »tcseacliff
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:40pmanother cool way to patrol the border would be have a volunteer program. any one who has a nifty gun collection could help out. work for free and bust out your collection. would be a much cheaoer way than expensive national guard and paid officers. I am sure many americans would be glad to help protect our borders. where do we sign up!!??
Report Post »calonzap
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:35pmI like it.
Report Post »HawkEyeTx
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:09am#
Report Post »Uh..Oh………..What will the daily operational cost be vs other options?
Doc
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:13amMontgomery County, Texas is right there with them. They have one that is capable of being armed with a grenade launcher. So tell me… why do a county sheriff need armed air assault capability?
Report Post »Vangard Shadowhawk http://vanguarddefense.com/productsservices/uavs/
Vechorik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:09amIf a border agent gets jailed for “roughing” in the handcuffing of an illegal, does anyone in their right mind believe the drones would ever be armed against illegals? I think not. So what’s going on now?
Report Post »tcseacliff
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 12:35pmbecause it is needed and a way cool way to protect the border without putting officers and civilians in harms way . I would like and electric fence and pit bulls. f mexico ,f the cartel.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:05amJust anoth way big brother is looking in on you. Yeah, the excuse is to “secure” the border. What else are the drones looking at while they are up there?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:04amWhat good does it do to patrol the boarder if your not going to enforce it, waste of time and money.
Report Post »calonzap
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:41pmI think it‘s just a way for the border patrol employees to see into women’s rest rooms. What could be next; taking photos of drivers running red lights? Wait, wait, I know…….I know the government has a gadget which allows the user to see through clothing; it will be mounted on the front of the drone so that videos can be taken of all the naked-appearing border-hoppers. OHHHH NOOOOO…..the inhumanity of it all.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 7:32amThey’ve assassinated over 2,000 humans in the Middle East with drones. I’m sure they have safeguards in place to prevent that from ever happening here.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:24amKeep drinking the kool aid. The fact they are flying drones that are infected with a virus they can’t get rid of, that can be hacked with a cheap of the shelf software program. has does this give you comfort of safe guards? The president has already assassinated two american citizens with these drones, what makes you think he won’t do it again?
Report Post »schlepnier
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 3:58amWell its a start…considering we are bing invaded.
emperor Hadrian showed us the way and with modern technology would could secure the boarder with less manpower than the romans used.
Sending down the national guard units for their 2 weeks a year training to man small rapid reaction force FOBs in conjuntions with the monitoring would really make a good start…….
Of course the mexican government would complain about us militarising our borders…mabey we should stop lettng them dictate what we can do in our own country whent hey have a civil war going on in theirs.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 4:45amUnfortunately… Walls never keep out the Barbarians… not in England… not in China… rather the Defences lock down the defenders… and the attackers seek alternate weaknesses. So, in History, alike the Muslims attacking one Christian Castle at a time… the Defenders NEVER Win! This is why… General Patton said: Always Attack!
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:10amBush II didn’t close the border. Obama didn’t close the border.
Report Post »Think about that awhile.
lukerw
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:55amSend down OWS… they are Remotely Controlled Drones!
Report Post »Bobby P
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 8:24amHaha, repurpose the useful idiots.
Report Post »robh
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:58amAlthough I like the drones, A-10′s are more appropriate for this particular mission.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 1:35amTheir sending in drones, yet they put this poor border guard in jail for doing his job, maybe i’ll go to Sweden for a while and watch this whole show play out, i will vote by absentee if i have too. CAIN
Report Post »timel0rd
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:08pmToo bad their mission is drug interdiction and not preventing illegal immigration .
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:52pmPerry has been asking for drones, aviation assets and boots on the ground to help with illegal immigration and drug cartels. Obama has denied everything. At least drones have showed up now for drugs at least. Oh, I forgot, Obummer is running for election.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 9:28amdrug interdiction….the politically correct term for terrorism and oppression of the citizenry. When they kill/imprison people over pot possession, but allow women to murder their unborn children under the right to do what they want with their body..
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:49pmI think they should fly one over the White House and drop a skunk oil balloon.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:43pmI think they should put a gattling gun on this thing like on the warhog. If you don’t arm them and use them your just wasting gas.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:42pmArm them heavily. Problem solved. You’re welcome.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:25pmMaybe the question should be.. why now?? Why after AZ begged for help and alas Obama did very little? Is it because an election year is coming up?? I hate to be a pessimist.. I have little faith if any in this administration.. so I can say.. I don’t trust them.. We will see soon I guess??
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:28pmAbby, they are NOT being used to interdict illegal immigration.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:54pmCNN Special Report: Border drone receives 2-year prison sentence for surveilling Mexican drug runner.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:17pmThat was funny. Well played!
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:43pmDrones fly over my area in the forest all the time with heat sensing equipment to find pot.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:13pmDon’t you find yourself boring to yourself? I mean, having thought’s that are really only current, and drab? Like a commentator regarding your everyday life. “The suns out today, weathers cold. Drones fly over. How about those Tampa Bay Buccaneers?” If that was me….never mind that couldn‘t be me so there’s no sense in wondering.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:27pmDrones fly in every State in America. Have for years. I guess it was about a year ago that the Military put the last of the satellites in place to literally web the earth in a blanket of surveillance. It was also about a year ago that some desk jockey wannabe tech smart cop along the border crashed a drone by changing telemetry and guidance protocols.
I should actually love what Obama has done for my field of work. I’ve averaged 72 hours a week in drone, sound, and lightwave weapons development. The fact is, he’s no using it for warfare by and large, it’s being deployed against average citizens. Oh wait. I mean, it’s being deployed FOR average citizens (cough BS cough) protection.
Report Post »JustMeHere_01
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:28pm@Eliasim
You know that some of us here are a bit slow. I would ask that you try dumbing down your comments so that people like me would be able to understand what it is that you are talking about. I base this on some of the other comments that you have posted on this thread not particularly this one.
Just try to be considerate of people like me that are not as sharp as you are.
Thank you in advance.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:41pmJustMeHere_01,
Report Post »I know, I know, and I’m just messing around. But I can’t dumb down comments without them losing meaning. However I can very much shorten them. How’s this? They’re gonna make us slaves for the world!
scout n ambush
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:33pmAnd here i thought all along they were not serious about securing the border ok i admit i was wrong.I wonder if they have deployed the feds large fleet of x ray vans along the boder too.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:42pmChances are these drones will be used against citizens and USBP agents just like the guns in operation Fast & Furious, not against illegals or the drug smugglers.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:45pmI had better be good. Obama can use one of those drones to shut me up forever.You don’t think he is actually going to catch illegal alien voters with it do you?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:18pmDoesn’t it seem just a little odd that Border Patrol Agents are getting jailed for altercations with Mexican drug smugglers, and yet the government cares enough about the border to send drones to help the Border Patrol?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:21pmAlmost as if maybe they will be shortly caring more about what is leaving the U.S more than what is coming into the U.S?
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:24pmCan you say Prison America?
Report Post »mils
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:30pmwhy send drones..so they can put more border aents in jail like they did diaz…2 years in federal prison..on the word of a drug dealing alien..and a rookie?…a rookie that admitted he lied?….
Hell the US government doesn’t care what happens to our people…gotta keep the Mexican gov happy..
Wanna see a dance??..ask Perry and Obama about this. Janet, well the woman just says whatever the adm tells her to say so no need to ask her..
Drones…a waste of time as no one will follow through to help the border agents.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:32pmOh…Ah…Oh…Ah. That’s the sound of Americans working on the chain-gang. Mining this and that for all the world because your debt is so intense.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:42pmYou‘ve got a screw loose if you think it can’t happen, when it has been happening for hundreds of years. How many prison have been emptied over-seas and told them to go to America? A lot. How many convicts did Great Britain used to send to America 200 years ago? A lot, enough that the Founding Father’s sent King George a letter. They can easily keep American imprisoned in America between two oceans and high technology on the borders. And I’m reminded of Janet making a remark about a fence at Canada.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:59pmThey are not going to capture you into a new version of the old version of Assyria for your captivity, but that they will keep you captive in America for your captivity.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 6:48amWe already have large drone, Napolitano. She just drones on, I know nothing. Well I didn’t contact the Atrty General when he had some of my border patrolmen killed, I didn’t think it was important.
I’m sorry but the drone is really more useful than her.
OMG
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 11:14amJanet Napolitano is a liberal nut, but her cousin, Judge Andrew Napolitano is a patriot!
U.S. Destabalizes entire Middle East, wastes $1 Trillion, Do you feel safer? More free? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZtOfddom4Q
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:08pmYou are all messed up…By what method has the president authorized the Assassination of American citizens…..Drones. You will never know when they are flying over, armed will hellfire missiles looking for tea party terrorists. Don’t you remember the fuss about the ATF buying a few ov-10 broncos in the 90′s. This is a set up, they will be patrolling your neighborhood soon.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:44pmI remember that. They were “supposed” to be for observation with no air-to-ground capabilities….but in reality the aircraft all had their “hard-points” still on the fuselage.
Report Post »republapig
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:04pmPut machine guns and heat seeking missiles on them.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:51pmThen the Justise Dept. will just go after the operator.Need I remind you of the latest debacle with the Drug runner and the handcuffs.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:04pmIf we’re pulling out of Iraq and Afganistan we should have plenty drones for the Mexican border. I say get permission from the Mexican government and drop a few bombs on the drug cartels in Mexico! We should be able to get the situation under control real quick.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:31pmHey, your thinking is a little backward in regards to how this Administration is. The Mexican President comes to Washington and TELLS US WHAT TO DO.
We really do not need to bomb Mexico. We need to take care of the people who USE the drugs. No demand = no need to supply.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:02pmNow just put a couple. hellfire missiles on it and we’re good to go!
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:05pmIf they do, I‘m sure they’ll fire it on American citizens rather than the illegals…
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:01pmthis is uncle sam
we are trying to stop illegal immigrants with these high flying cameras along the border ……… the same border we refuse to close and the same illegal immigrants we refuse to prodecute and deport when we catch them
trust me , we are here to help
by the way, your wife sunbathing in the back yard is hot
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