\Boeing May Help Catch Illegal Immigrants

\From: "Mercedes V. Castillo" <chair@nllsa.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:58:45 -0700
Subject: {Disarmed} [tupocc] FW: Boeing May Help Catch Illegal Immigrants

There is big money to be made in capturing brown people... Has it ever been
any different?

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Boeing May Help Catch Illegal Immigrants

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 20, 2006
Filed at 8:55 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Boeing Co. has won a big government
contract to provide new high-tech ways to catch
illegal immigrants trying to enter the U.S. along the
Mexican border, a congressional aide said.

The Department of Homeland Security was expected to
announce the contract, which has been estimated as
high as $2 billion, as early as Wednesday. The
congressional aide spoke on condition of anonymity
because the department had not yet made its
announcement.

Boeing was among several major defense companies
competing for the job. While other companies'
proposals relied more heavily on using flying drones
to patrol the border, Boeing focused on a network of
1,800 high-tech towers, equipped with cameras and
motion detectors, that could feed live information to
Border Patrol agents.

Boeing's victory was reported in several newspapers
Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

The contract, part of the Secure Border Initiative, is
the government's latest attempt to use advanced
technology to solve the illegal immigration problem,
which lawmakers have called a national security issue
and which has given new attention in light of the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Homeland Security gave companies chasing the contract
-- including Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop
Grumman Corp. -- unusual freedom to come up with their
own ideas for how best to apply new and developing
technologies to the problem.

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