{"id":288,"date":"2006-06-03T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/web-users-to-patrol-us-border\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:29:49","slug":"web-users-to-patrol-us-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/web-users-to-patrol-us-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Users to &#8216;Patrol&#8217; US Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting on a proposal that would place web cameras along the Texas-Mexico border and allow anyone with an internet connection to monitor illegal immigration &#8216;hot spots&#8217; from anywhere in the world and report sightings to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>From the article &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas&#8217; border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Governor Rick Perry said the cameras would focus on &#8220;hot-spots and common routes&#8221; used to enter the US.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the entire article on the BBC web site @ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/5040372.stm\">Web users to &#8216;patrol&#8217; US border<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting on a proposal that would place web cameras along the Texas-Mexico border and allow anyone with an internet connection to monitor illegal immigration &#8216;hot spots&#8217; from anywhere in the world and report sightings to authorities. From the article &#8212; A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/law-enforcement\/web-users-to-patrol-us-border\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Web Users to &#8216;Patrol&#8217; US Border<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6326,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}