Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam

The BBC features a story today on a controversial effort to patrol the border between Mexico and Texas by means of 21 hidden cameras, the output of which is streamed online for viewers at home, who can then report suspected illegal border crossings; more than 130,000 people have registered to observe the streams, from as far afield as "Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Israel, New Zealand and the UK."

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What a waste of time

[HenryKoren]

130,000 peoples "croudsourced" surveillance leads to the arrest of 21 mostly dope smugglers. What a colossal waste of time and energy this was for this end result.

How about you border watchers go do something useful, learn a trade, contribute something positive to society. Obstructing other people from doing their work, does nothing to make this world a better place. It's a line in the sand!

Re:Why guard the border at all?

[Thoreauly Nuts]

We may not like our laws, but we are bound to respect them and it is not legal to enter this country without a visa or citizenship.

"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice." ---Henry Thoreau

"Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." ---Thomas Jefferson

In short, I don't care in the slightest what the law says.

Maybe it sounds callous to you, but screw the people that drain our social support without giving anything back.

Yes, because the millions of illegal immigrants in this country don't give back by building our houses, cleaning our buildings, growing our food, or mowing our lawns for shit wages with no benefits. You know, all the jobs most Americans would never get off their fat asses to do, but nevertheless need to be done. They do more for America than most of the elected representatives in our own government...

we cannot allow a de facto aid package to be sucked out of our hospitals and food pantries and shelters.

But we can allow the government to spend trillions on war and bailing out rich corporations while continually eviscerating our civil liberties? Illegals shouldn't even be on the radar at this point...