Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:16AM from the tag-and-release-even-more-expensive dept.

mpicpp sends this report from CNN: They are sleek, mostly silent converted weapons of war: Drones used by the Border Patrol to scan the skies in the empty deserts of the Southwest to spot illegal immigrants and then, if things work out, have agents arrest them. That's the idea, and the agents who use them say the drones give them a vantage point they never had before. Flying at 18,000 feet, the drones view the landscape below, lock onto potential suspects crossing the Arizona desert, and agents on the ground move into make the arrests. But it's outrageously expensive: $28,000 for a single arrest.

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Re:Is that really a lot? by sycodon · 2015-02-26 03:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

LEGAL immigrants...those who follow the rules.
We should not welcome anyone who thinks they are more important than the millions waiting in line already.
We should not welcome anyone who steals in order to get work.
We should not welcome anyone who will come here to sign up for benefits.
We should not welcome anyone who doesn't want to learn the language, integrate and become part of our culture.

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