Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average

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.

Comments

get tough

[slashmydots]

What they need to do is instead of arresting people, drop missiles on them. There are groups that declared war on the US and there are thousands of people walking into the country unchecked. That's a bad combination and how many do you think would cross the border illegally if hellfire missiles were raining down on them? Zero. With zero people crossing the border, nobody gets bombed. See, problem solved. Someone just needs to grow some balls and get tough on the problem.

Re:Is that really a lot?

[some old guy]

Oh, yeah, it's not like Americans already here need jobs or anything.