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Webcams Might Guard US Board

Who will do a better job protecting American borders than the American people? That is the idea behind Taxes` governor plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras across the Mexican border. All cameras will be hooked to online servers that will broadcast live feed online and anyone with a computer will be able to spot illegal immigrants and report it on a toll-free hot line.

The plan will cost $5 million and will serve as an optional solution for the infiltrator problem that Texas is experiencing at the Mexican border. "I look at this as not different from the neighborhood watches we have had in our communities for years and years," Perry said last week. However, not everyone welcomes the initiative. "This is just one of those half-baked ideas that people dream up to save money but have no practical applications," said Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project in Austin.

"We would be far better off to invest that money in Mexican small towns along the border so people wouldn`t have to emigrate." Although people that object to the initiative believe that a different approach should be taken, if guarding the borders is the way to go ? the actual way of doing it is still under discussion.