200 border cameras: Worsley proposes virtual fence to monitor illegal immigration

Screen Shot 2014-01-29 at 11.28.34 AMBy Ben Giles | Arizona Capitol Times

After three years of jockeying over how to spend the hundreds of thousands of dollars raised to construct a fence along Arizona’s border with Mexico, a state lawmaker is proposing to use those funds — and another $30 million — on a virtual fence to patrol the border.

Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, introduced legislation proposing a radar network along the border to monitor traffic moving from Mexico to Arizona, independent of federal border patrol efforts.

“My proposal is just to monitor,” Worsley said. “Trust but verify.”

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