“Fantastic” Drone Technology Comes to Rescue on the Border
DHS Pumping Money into Drones for Domestic Surveillance, Hunting Immigrants and Seizing Pot
Drones Are Coming to a Theater Near You
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Predators on the Border, Hawks Across the Border and a Homeland of Drones
Drones are proliferating. First, the Pentagon joined with military contractors to breed fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as airborne drones are formally called. Although major new drone species began emerging in the 1990s, the Bush administration’s war on terrorism after the 9/11 attacks sparked a major surge of drone production and deployment – not only for reconnaissance, but also for military strikes against targeted terrorists.