The U.S. State Department has
submitted an application for congressional approval for $100 million to fund
the building and overseeing of 4,000km of mobile sensor towers and electronic
fences in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Israel in a desperate bid to seal their
borders off against the fast-moving ISIS.
The application states: “This
procurement is intended for Egyptian Border Guard Forces, which currently lack
any remote detection capability along unpatrolled areas of Egypt’s borders.”
Libya, Sudan and Sinai are specified. The application goes on to explain: “The
system would provide an early warning capability to allow for faster response
times to mitigate threats to the border guards and the civilian population.”
Obviously, our government does not
take America’s security as seriously as they do our allies in the Mideast.
While we might not have ISIS on our back door, illegal immigration has serious
negative implications in areas of national security, crime and jobs. While
Donald Trump was definitively not politically correct in the manner in which he
articulated the issue, wouldn’t it be better to be pro-active and seal OUR
BORDERS now rather than wait till the problem has to be dealt with re-actively?
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