The Tucson area, for years the busiest crossing point for illegal immigrants, has served as the testing ground for the federal government's high-technology border effort, although even senior Homeland Security officials acknowledge it got off to a poor start.
Globalization and the Internet made these threats more acute, as technology erased borders and empowered individuals to project great violence, as well as great good.
We were there to carry on the conversation as technology transcends borders.
Bunker said he knew of no invisible radar scrambling systems for small planes, and listed several hypothetical ways it could function before discounting them by saying they would be in "the realm of 'Dr. Evil' planning and technology that borders on simple fantasy".
We believe this subsection is important to understand that even the latest 2-PI technology just borders at the threshold to reliably identify avalanches.
The administration's 2012 budget proposal is similarly gratuitous, including "nearly $300 million for border technology, $229 million for border personnel and more than 40,000 additional border patrol agents and officers," according to Daly.
Research what other countries are doing in terms of technology and border protection, and write an opinion piece about what the technological advances mean to policy makers and citizens.
Some countries, including Britain, already use face-recognition technology for border control.
In addition to E.U. leadership and fiscal discipline, that would for most sectors mean entrepreneurship, new technology, cross-border industry restructuring, and hard work.
But the bulk of the agreement is aid for Mexico, in the form of training for the police and military as well as aircraft and advanced technology at border crossings.
