Border Patrol Seeks to Add Digital Eyes to Its Ranks - NYTimes.com
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PHOENIX — Among the federal officials who gathered here this week for a conclave on border security, there was little talk of building a fence along the 2,000-mile Mexican border. Instead, the chatter was all about technology: about concentrating Border Patrol agents, equipped with late-model surveillance tools, in areas of frequent illegal traffic, while using aerial drones to monitor remote, lightly trafficked spots.
The chief of the Border Patrol, Michael J. Fisher, said the goal of the strategy, begun a year ago, was to “shrink the border,” allowing agents to focus on areas where criminal smugglers of migrants and drugs were most likely to travel.