Technology used at the border - BBC

[StevieC]

This technology was interesting... And this is the technology we know about.
(Please don't make this political, this is just about the technology used)

 

[AZjeff]

What about the US/Canuck border? Eh?

 

[StevieC]

Canadians only invade for shopping and then return... No threat. We just have a no-touching zone and vehicle crossings.

 

[Snagglefoot]

Originally Posted by AZjeff
What about the US/Canuck border? Eh?


Oh, we have something special for all the Americans from Arizona trying to sneak in for our free health care. There's a -36 C wind chill going on at Emerson, Manitoba today.

 

[oil_film_movies]

Tunnels under the border? Those are a big problem and I hope they are taking surveys using ground radar or maybe getting warrants to search nearby buildings.
Good video. Reminds me of National Geographic's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LprS40nUlKY "Border Wars". They do all this, yet the people are often just released into the U.S. and "disappear", just laughing at an order to report for a hearing in 3 months. Ridiculous.

 

[CT8]

Seems to not be making a huge difference.

 

[oil_film_movies]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0cgft7gqAY is a good summary of how BlackHawk choppers are excellent force multipliers. We should get more of those deployed, and better barriers can slow them down connsiderably until the technology and helicopters can stop them.

 

[emg]

Originally Posted by StevieC

Canadians only invade for shopping and then return... No threat. We just have a no-touching zone and vehicle crossings.


Apparently there's a library that physically straddles the border, which is used for smuggling now and again; I remember reading that someone was caught smuggling guns through there a while back.

Aha: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171105-the-us-canada-border-runs-through-this-tiny-library

Seems the opera house does too, with the stage in Canada and the seats in the US!

 

[oil_film_movies]

We were stopped in a rented mini-van near the border in 2009. They need to do more of that. And the high-tech stuff. Barriers too, it all works together. Funding should double for it all.

 

[AZjeff]

Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by AZjeff
What about the US/Canuck border? Eh?


Oh, we have something special for all the Americans from Arizona trying to sneak in for our "free" health care. There's a -36 C wind chill going on at Emerson, Manitoba today.

Fixed it for you.

I spent most of my life in NW Pa so cold doesn't scare me, just choose to not deal with it too much. We did see 7f a few weeks ago.

 

[LeakySeals]

The cold is the effective USA/eh border.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted by LeakySeals
The cold is the effective USA/eh border.

You would think Florida would have a wall built around it to keep all the Canucks out of there, by now.

 

[gman2304]

I got the border pics....we need more orange barrels!

 

[StevieC]

And on cue here they come... I've explained this type of thing before.

 

[Pelican]

Originally Posted by AZjeff
What about the US/Canuck border? Eh?


We've gat bazookas, Machine-guns and RPGs also an array of disruptors from Star Trek

 

[Garak]

Stevie, speaking of invading the U.S. for shopping, that's the truth! Back before 9/11, it was so easy. If you were driving a Saskatchewan plated car into North Dakota, you didn't even get stopped going into the U.S. They'd just wave you in. On the way back, heaven help you, though, if you treated yourself to some tobacco or alcohol that wasn't taxed at a draconian level. Canadian border people those days spent the vast majority of their days ensuring that a Canadian didn't get a pack of cigarettes for under $8.

 

[bmwpowere36m3]

Considering most illegals in US are ones that came legally on visas and then overstayed...

Strategic placed walls... great, it works. Wall all-along the US-Mexico border... waste of resources. Money better spent on better other technologies, increased screening at official border crossings and ports of entry. Additionally streamlining and getting more resources in the deportation process.

 

[Al]

Technology is useless. All it can do is watch them climb over the fence or leisurely walk across where there is no fence. We are not permitted to have a human physically stop them. And when they are here we don't have enough holding facilities. Its just catch and release. Won't ever change

Glad I'm 72.

 

[grampi]

Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
Originally Posted by AZjeff
What about the US/Canuck border? Eh?


Oh, we have something special for all the Americans from Arizona trying to sneak in for our free health care. There's a -36 C wind chill going on at Emerson, Manitoba today.

We have free healthcare here in the states too. You just have to be here illegally to get it...

 

[Patman]

Originally Posted by StevieC
Originally Posted by LeakySeals
The cold is the effective USA/eh border.

You would think Florida would have a wall built around it to keep all the Canucks out of there, by now.

I would sprout wings and fly over that wall if that were to happen!