Immigration Law

$200,000 Test Of Web Video Leads To Capture Of Only 10 Illegal Immigrants

According to the Dallas Morning News, a Web site that allows people to monitor the border between the United States and Mexico by live video, has resulted in the capture of only ten illegal immigrants. The Web site underwent a month long test to determine if the idea of monitoring illegal immigration through video was feasible.

The site, www.texasborderwatch.com, allows a person to view the Texas/Mexico border from eight different cameras. The Web site also allows viewers to e-mail reports of any suspicious activity. Previously, the images from the cameras were only available to law enforcement and the owners of the land where the cameras were located.

Governor Rick Perry’s plan is to put $5 million worth of cameras on the border so people in the U.S. can monitor illegal immigration. The cost of this initial test was $200,000. Critics of the Web site, however, stated that the cameras led to the arrests of only ten of the more than 12,000 undocumented illegal immigrants caught each month.

From Immigration-Law-Answers-Blog posted 2007-01-22.