Stewart M. Powell
The New York Times
December 27, 2011
WASHINGTON – Sophisticated surveillance aircraft will be deployed along the nation’s southwest border in coming months to peer as much as six miles into Mexico to spot smugglers, drug traffickers and undocumented immigrants.
The new strategy will give armed U.S. Border Patrol agents an edge intercepting intruders as they cross into the United States, the Obama administration said Tuesday.
The plan to operate crewed, high-tech aircraft with so-called “over the horizon” technology came as the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security announced the end of the 18-month-old deployment of 1,200 National Guard ground troops who have been helping the U.S. Border Patrol spot illegal border crossers.
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