Bored web surfers can patrol the border.Texas Governor Rick Perry James Richard Perry (b. March 4, 1950) is a Republican politician and the Governor of Texas. He assumed office in December 2000 when then-Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States. Gov. plans to mount live webcams on the border, so anyone online can watch for suspicious activity and report it directly to law enforcement agents. The governor is spending $5 million on his plan to turn any web surfer into a cyber vigilante vigilante n. someone who takes the law into his/her own hands by trying and/or punishing another person without any legal authority. In the 1800s groups of vigilantes dispensed "frontier justice" by holding trials of accused horse-thieves, rustlers and shooters, and . Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, told the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , "We would be far better off to invest that money in Mexican small towns along the border so people wouldn't have to emigrate em·i·grate intr.v. em·i·grat·ed, em·i·grat·ing, em·i·grates To leave one country or region to settle in another. See Usage Note at migrate. ." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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