Rootsie

perhaps we see the real motivations behind this whole border security issue right here. i'm sure these technologies will not have anything to do with keeping slave wage earners out for the corporate fraternity which feeds off their labor, OR protecting the american working class from competition from desperate people who come to the U.S. for their measly income to support their families. it is unfortunate that the reactionary elements of the white populist movement can't see the forest from the trees in this issue and the white liberals are just adding a friendly face by justifying "guest worker" a.k.a. slave worker status for desperate migrants. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870508/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14870508/)

Firms compete on high-tech border security
Homeland Security expected to select winner soon

By Griff Witte

Updated: 1:31 a.m. ET Sept 18, 2006
If Northrop Grumman Corp. gets the multibillion-dollar contract to secure America's borders, the sky above the Rio Grande would be thick with drones.

Cellphone maker Ericsson Inc. thinks drones are largely a waste and would focus instead on giving Border Patrol agents wireless devices capable of receiving live video.

Boeing Co. would build high-tech towers, lining the borders with 1,800 of them.


For Lockheed Martin Corp., blimps are a big part of the solution. And for Raytheon Co., the key is letting agents watch incidents unfold on Google Earth. . . .Overall, the proposals lean heavily on technology developed for the battlefield. "We're transferring things that are military today into a civil implementation," said Bruce Walker, a Northrop Grumman vice president who has led the California company's efforts."