KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Congressman Fred Upton (click here) told the Trifecta that he doesn’t see the need for Drones in the U.S.
The issue is heating up because of a presidential memo that spells out when drones can be used to take out U.S. Citizens working for al-Qaida.
Over 80 police agencies, university researchers and other organizations have filed for permits to use drones in the U.S.
Apparently the U.S. Customs Service has been using drones to gaurd the southern border with Mexico for the last 7 years.
Police agencies say they can be used to trail escaping criminals or equipped with infra-red to find lost children or Alzheimer’s patients, and do it a lot less expensively than a manned aircraft....
People always find a way. Barriers never stop people. People are living, thinking entities on this Earth and just because these people are from Mexican origins doesn't make them less human, less thinkers or less a person with an idea to achieve their goal of being with family.
This "border friendship park" (click here) is a place where families from both sides of the border meet their relatives to talk and hold hands in between the steel columns that separate Mexico and the United States.
Javier Manzano / For The Washington Post
Drones will not stop the will of people determined to be together with a sustainable living regardless of the poverty they accept into their lives in the USA. The USA poverty is better than the abandoned state of being in Mexico.
The only things that will stop people from coming to the USA is a sustainable economy in Mexico while defeating the cartels to stop the flow of guns and drugs into and out of both countries.
If the drones are proven to save the lives of Border Agents then they have merit, but, to expect drones to actually stop immigration across the USA border is not only unrealistic, it is Un-American. We are compassionate people who reward people for their work. We are not people that send Mexicans back to a place where they will die rather than survive.
