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UA will use $16M grant to track migrants
Focus will be on developing security technology, gathering data about immigrants
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The University of Arizona on Wednesday laid out plans for its co-leadership role in the National Center for Border Security and Immigration, Research.
UA was awarded a $16 million, six-year grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in February to head up the research arm of the center, while the University of Texas at El Paso was given about $6 million to lead the educational component.
At UA, research will focus on developing new security technologies, gathering data about immigrants and analyzing methods by which similar data have been gathered in past years, said Jay Cohen, the DHS undersecretary for science and technology.
"We want to know how many immigrants are coming, how many illegal immigrants, where do they go, what do they do, how do they support the economy," said Jay Nunamaker, director of UA's Center for Management of Information in the Eller College of Management.
Nunamaker will direct the National Center for Border Security and Immigration, Research at UA.
One of the security projects already under way is a laser doppler vibrometer, he said.
The vibrometer measures someone's blood pressure and heart rate at a distance. The tool now used is accurate at under 10 yards, as long as the person at whom it is aimed is not wearing a turtleneck shirt or has a beard.
Nunamaker said the goal is to make the laser beam that is aimed at the suspect's carotid artery invisible and have it be accurate up to 100 yards.
"We're trying to get a sense, 'Do people who are telling a lie give off different signals than people who are telling the truth?' " Nunamaker said.
Cohen said Congress "rightly decided" that more research was needed on borders and that "the two pillars of research are universities and laboratories."
Cohen added, "Human elements give us terrorists, and human elements will solve the terrorist (threat). We're looking for those technologies that will make the border more efficient (for legal commerce), more effective and more secure."
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who attended the news conference opening the UA center, said that there is "always a struggle for balance" between security and individual liberty but that security is necessary to "expedite commerce and speed up legal traffic by detecting who is coming here legally and who is coming illegally.
"But post 9/11, we realize the homeland will (be) - and has been - attacked," she said. "Most of those people were coming for economic reasons, but some were coming in for criminal reasons."
Cohen said those who doubted there was a need for secure borders should remember that some of the Sept. 11 terrorists came through Canada. He said that drug trade is the biggest problem on the Mexico-U.S. border, but that "there's a fine line between a narco-criminal and a terrorist."
UA President Robert N. Shelton said he thought UA won the competitive grant because of the "strength of our scholarship" and UA's proximity to the border.
Students from "majors from all over campus" will have the opportunity to get involved in the six-year research project, Nunamaker said.
A Win-win situation for ALL non-Traitors..
16) Study how much in earmarks La Raza and other illegal alien advocates are receving from federal and state earmarks to petition for rights and legalization
17) Study why the University of Arizona promotes illegal aliens yet is deemed the right organization to receive a grant of 16 million dollars to 'study' what we already know they will fudge the numbers to fit their agenda.
Sorry if I missed some, fellow Patriots. There are more I know.
"We want to know:
how many immigrants are coming
how many illegal immigrants
where do they go
what do they do
how do they support the economy"
Interesting.
Again they left off:
1) Study and propose how to stop them from coming illegally
2) Study how much they are actually costing our schools
3) Study how many are committing additional crimes after failure to submit to inspection by immigration checkpoint
4)Study how many are visa overstayers vs border jumpers
5) Study how many are signing up for selective service if male and over 18 (and how many are committing a felony by not signing up for the draft that requires ALIENS to sign up just as well as citizens)
6) How many are using section 8 free housing vouchers and how much that is costing the US taxpayers
7) How many are underreporting their income taxes (committing tax fraud)
8) How much of Western Union's revenues are tied to illegal immigratioon remittances
9) How much it is costing us to transport illegal aliens 'rescued'
10) Study how many illegal aliens are driving without a license
11) How many are illegal aliens are using fraudulent SS #s
12) How many illegal aliens are using ITIN numbers to file tax returns
13) How many illegal aliens are qualifying for affirmative action in school admissions
14) How many illegal aliens are qualifying for affirmative action in government contracts
15) How many illegal aliens are qualifying for affirmative action in public hiring jobs
15) Study how much in earmarks La Raza and other illegal alien advocates are receving from federal and state earmarks to petition for rights and legalization
15) Study why the University of Arizona promotes illegal aliens yet is deemed the right organization to receive a grant of 16 million dollars to 'study' what we already know they will fudge the numbers to fit their agenda.
Sorry if I missed some, fellow Patriots. There are more I know.