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Saturday, September 5, 2009
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High Tech Ultralight for Border
ABP's Border Hawk L Entering Service
American Border Patrol -- September 5
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| Glenn Spencer pilots Challenger II -- Border Hawk L -- near the Mexican border. Head mounted camera will be tested this week. |
They started with the first unmanned aerial vehicle on the border and moved on to a six-place Cessna (still in service).
Now, American Border Patrol has entered a new phase of aerial surveillance using a Challenger II ultralight airplane. "The Challenger gives us the stealthy capabilities of the UAV and imaging capabilities of the Cessna at a much lower cost," said Glenn Spencer, head ABP.
Spencer said ABP has completed test flights of the Challenger and is now equipping it with sensors and cameras. "This week we will be testing the Contour HD, a head-mounted high definition video camera that will allow the pilot of the Challenger to do what it took two people in the Cessna, and to do it quietly." Spencer said. According to Spencer, who is ABP's chief pilot, the Challenger can make long power-off glides making the aircraft stealthy, especially at night.
ABP will be adding thermal cameras to the Challenger, including one that can spot an individual at five miles. "Before the end of September we should be showing the American people some very interesting video of the border," Spencer added. ABP has designated the Challenger as Border Hawk L -- for "light." |
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Phoenix Business Journal sc
Arpaio's dislike of Goddard propels look at governor run
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's interest in a 2010 run for governor is fueled in part by his rivalry with Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, according to sources who asked not to be identified. -- Goddard is expected to be the Democratic nominee for governor next year... |
The Morning News -- Fayetteville, Ark.
Drug ring leader sentenced
The alleged kingpin of a methamphetamine ring was sentenced Thursday to federal prison for money laundering. -- Juan Carrillo was sentenced to 20 years and fined $50,000. He's expected to be deported when released. -- Prosecutors said the ring brought drugs to Northwest Arkansas from California and Texas. [See Crime Watch] |
Edwin S. Rubenstein -- VDare.com
Unemployment Soaring: Time for an immigration moratorium
So gargantuan is America’s post-1965 immigration disaster that there is now an immigration dimension to every public issue -- Health Care, infectious disease, mortgage fraud, crime, school overcrowding. -- Nowhere is this more evident than in employment -- and nowhere is the phenomenon more pressing, given that unemployment has now reached a level (9.7 percent -- 14.9 million unemployed) not seen since 1983... |
Newsday -- New York
Hispanic accused of church hate-crime
A man arrested on charges of leaving anti-Hispanic messages on the altar of a Patchogue church earlier this week and flinging a log and a bottle at a churchgoer Friday night apparently was involved in a feud with the pastor over tithing or fees, the village's mayor said Saturday... [Related story] |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Feds: 2 Mexicans arranged jobs for illegal workers
Federal prosecutors have accused two Mexican men of arranging employment and obtaining false documents for several illegal [aliens] and using fake identification to take out mortgages totaling more than $1 million. -- The men - Rogelio Lopez-Tiznado, 39, and Gabriel Perez-Zambrano, 37 - made their initial federal court appearances Thursday... [See Crime Watch] |
Breitbart.tv 
Obama's wackjob "Green Jobs Czar" tosses racial rant about Columbine
Radical Communist Van Jones: "You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them. Now, a black kid might shoot another black kid. He's not going to shoot up the whole school." [See Obama Watch] |
Bellingham (Wash.) Herald
Border Patrol seizes $3 million in Ecstasy, cocaine near Sumas
U.S. Border Patrol agents seized about $3 million worth of Ecstasy and cocaine near Sumas Wednesday night, Sept. 2. -- The agents were patrolling along the border when they spotted two people's footprints and the tracks of a heavy object being dragged along a row in a raspberry patch that went south from the U.S.-Canadian border... [See Crime Watch] |
Center for Immigration Studies
Immigration opinions
...As those immigrants poured into this country, he (traitor Ted Kennedy) facilitated and languished as millions of illegal aliens marched across our borders to wreak havoc on our schools, communities, jobs, hospitals, language and prisons. Over 20,000 members of MS-13 gangs distribute $100 billion in drugs yearly.... |
Fox News
Former immigration agent accused of cocaine smuggling
Tucson -- Authorities say a former high-ranking U.S. ICE agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling. -- Richard Padilla Cramer was arrested Friday at his home in Green Valley, Ariz. He later appeared before a federal judge, who denied bail... |
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American Border Patrol
Photo of the day
This is the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona. After DHS removed barriers to allow for monsoon rains (that never came) illegals began flooding across the border instead.... |
Christopher Adamo -- Family Security Matters
Obamacare: When growing old becomes a 'crime'
Immediately following the passage in the Declaration of Independence avowing the rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is the phrase, "to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men." Clearly, in the minds of the founders, the purpose of government should only be to uphold a just and defensible societal structure... |
KDBC-TV -- El Paso
CBP finds cocaine in motorcycle gas tank, Mexican busted
...CBP officers arrested 35-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Provencio of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He was turned over to ICE special agents after the case was accepted for federal prosecution. Rodriguez-Provencio was booked into the El Paso County Jail and is currently being held without bond... |
Fox News
Delta Airlines employees charged with smuggling illegal aliens
San Juan, PR -- A federal grand jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has indicted two ticket agent contractors who worked for Delta Airlines and an airport employee on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal [aliens] into the U.S. -- The ticket agents, identified as Diana Telemaque, 33, and Felicia Browne, 22, were arrested Thursday along with luggage handler Daniel Confidente... [See Crime Watch] |
The Trucker News Services
Hoffa says IG report shows Mexican border should remain closed
Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said Thursday that an inspector general report shows once and for all that the border should remain closed to unsafe Mexican trucks. -- The report, issued Wednesday, covers eight safety criteria related to Mexico-domiciled motor carriers potentially operating beyond narrow commercial zones along the border... |
Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas
Obama Web site calls opponents "right-wing domestic terrorists"
Bobby Eberle, writing for GOP USA, is alarmed by the latest Obama political tactic -- characterizing all who would oppose Obamacare as rightwing extremists. Eberle points to a post dated the first of September on the Heritage Foundation website... |
Sierra Sun -- Truckee, Calif.
Feds arrest 12 in immigration raid at Lake Tahoe
Kings Beach, Calif. — Federal immigration officers arrested 12 suspected illegal [aliens] after stationing near a recent DUI checkpoint on Lake Tahoe's North Shore, a California Highway Patrol officer said Thursday. -- Sgt. Steve Bryan of California Highway Patrol said federal ICE officers stood by a highway patrol DUI checkpoint Friday... [See Crime Watch] |
Government Video
SBInet breaks ground in Michigan
The U.S. Border Patrol began work Wednesday on one of 11 Remote Video Surveillance Sites in the Detroit Sector, part of Customs and Border Protection's SBInet (the technical component of the Secure Border Initiative) to enhance border security... |
Center for Immigration Studies
Daily news from CIS
Sept. 4 Headlines -- The Treasury Department formally lifted nearly all U.S. restrictions on family travel to Cuba on Thursday, along with limits on how much money families can send to relatives on the island. -- The department also eased regulations prohibiting U.S. telecommunications and satellite linkages between the United States and Cuba... |
WorldNetDaily.com
Are You Fed Up Yet?: White House to fly Red Chinese flag
The administration of President Barack Obama, whose official blogger while Obama was a candidate came under attack for hanging a Communist Party flag in his Harvard apartment, apparently has given permission to raise the emblem of Communist China over the south lawn of the White House... |
Rita Kramer -- Family Security Matters
Obama youth or the wages of charisma
When it was decided that the President would address the schoolchildren of the nation in a speech this coming Tuesday, the administration's Department of Education obligingly prepared materials for teachers to help them guide classroom discussions of the speech... |
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