At Niger's request, American officials said, the drones may also conduct surveillance along the border before entering Mali.
Thanks to a last-minute amendment, the final version of the Senate immigration bill would spend $30 billion to double the number of federal border agents, complete 700 miles of fencing, and expand radar and aerial drone surveillance along the border.
Officials there said that while they had stepped up their surveillance along the border of the two counties, they did not think spraying was necessary because they had not found infected mosquitoes.
Other recommendations include disbanding the cabinet committee on piracy, lengthening prison terms for intellectual property crimes and increasing police surveillance on the border with Paraguay, long a hotbed of contraband and smuggling.
While the investigators dutifully recorded these suspected cases along with dozens of others in Guinea, the information never reached the government team doing surveillance across the border in Sierra Leone, three team members and other health officials said in interviews.
We have seen, since the 1980s, an increase in military surveillance of the border, including not only the construction of fences and increase in state and civilian patrols, but most recently the rhetorical insistence that Mexico will be made to pay the construction of a wall across its whole northern border.
With the tactic in growing use at or near the San Diego border crossing, local, state and federal officials have announced a crackdown on the wrong-way drivers, promising stepped-up surveillance at the border and better barriers to keep drivers in their proper lanes.
They said such proposals will lead to the deployment of facial recognition surveillance at the border; funding for automatic license plate readers that would collect information beyond the scope of cars crossing the border; and automated immigration enforcement such as "predictive policing" that rely on mathematical analytics to prevent potential crime.
It would also require Congress to appropriate money for radar surveillance on the border similar to what is being used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There exists an acute imperative to improve infectious disease surveillance in the border regions of Burma.
And with budget cutting in the past two years, money for surveillance equipment along the border has been pared back.
