We have as many assets looking at the border as there are in Iraq. And what the language in the bill says is that before you go out and just buy more Predators at 8 million bucks. there is already $50 million in the account and we want to know before you spend that whether it is costeffective compared to other issues that you have to do. You have on the border not only the Customs and Border Patrol. and I would submit that the arrests were not made by that unmanned vehicle. and I dont think that was the only system they used to discover that. It was just one. It happened to be a very. very expensive one. The radar systems are the most effective. The most effective. And you have responding to that Customs and Border Patrol that are in aircraft. in different kinds of helicopters. including Black Hawk helicopters. you have allterrain vehicles. you have Border Patrol on horseback. you have Border Patrol with SUVs. with fourwheeldrive vehicles. You have all kinds of response mechanisms and all kinds of detection mechanisms. But to suggest that we shouldnt even ask the question of whether an $8 million expense is more costeffective than another kind of assets.
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