Texas awaits drones for border
State plies pressure for unmanned surveillance craft
Posted: May 17, 2010 at 3:58 a.m.
A Predator drone owned by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is examined in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush (right), then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (left) and an unidentified man in Yuma, Ariz.
After years of political pressure from politicians, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says that he expects the federal government to deliver unmanned aircraft to watch over the Texas border with Mexico by this fall.
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