Conservative Rumblings

Yes, I know the media is calling it “The 4th” now, but I prefer the old name. Two hundred and thirty-two years and still going strong.

I am a huge fan of the work the Minutemen do to help secure our border.

Now, they have a teammate in the fight: the TechnoPatriots, a group of like-minded individuals who are using cameras and remote video technology to help keep on eye on our southern border.

The roughly 90 members of the TechnoPatriots live as far away as New York and as close as just a few miles from the border, conducting their surveillance using five wireless cameras set up by the organization in Arizona.
The cameras include a daytime color videocam and a thermal imaging device for nighttime viewing, both mounted on a motor home. The others are mounted on telephone poles on private property.
The TechnoPatriots claim that from the program’s launch in November through late March, they made 160 sightings that led to 118 people getting caught. The Border Patrol could not confirm those numbers, saying it does not log the names or affiliations of tipsters.
Even if the number is accurate, it is an extremely small share of the more than 1,000 people caught every day in the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, which includes most of the Arizona-Mexico border.
Nevertheless, Tucson sector spokesman Jesus “Chuy” Rodriguez said of the TechnoPatriots: “Any time that you can get people to call in and report illegal activity, that’s helpful to us. If we can go out and verify, that’s a good call.”

Well done.

Edit: I probably should have added this the first time: TechnoPatriots Website.