Border Officials Say Technology Is Good, But People Make the Difference

Homeland Security and Border Patrol leaders say they aim to keep Mexican Cartels away from southern border

A Border Patrol agent operates a portable radar-camera unit. Southwest Border, United States, Courtesy, CBP website https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/frontline-june-az-technology

At a hearing to discuss the technology needed to secure the nation’s borders, one Homeland Security official said that without one critical resource, all the technology in the world would be useless.

“Technology will never replace the men and women pursuing what the technology uncovers,” said Anthony Salisbury, acting deputy executive associate director for Homeland Security Investigations.