$2 Million Border Camera Results in A Handful of Arrests: Cost Effective Immigration and Drug Enforcement?

The El Paso Times reports that nearly 2 million Web hits and a thousand e-mails from watchers of Texas’ latest border camera project resulted in one drug bust and reports of about a half-dozen unlawful border crossings in the past month.  The Sheriff’s Coalition, along with the private online social networking company BlueServo, obtained a $2 million grant from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to operate the border camera program. The Web site, www.blueservo.com, was launched last month and had gotten about 1.89 million hits by Tuesday. The hits allegedly about 1,500 e-mails that led to one drug bust netting three arrests and led to the referral of about six undocumented immigrants to U.S. Border Patrol officials.

Is the camera cost effective?  I guess time will tell.

Hat tip to Cappy White for this story!

KJ