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Current Events and Musings => News of the Day => Topic started by: WhiskeyGirl on November 30, 2009, 12:30:02 PM



Title: Phone App Helping Illegal Immigrants Cross the Border
Post by: WhiskeyGirl on November 30, 2009, 12:30:02 PM
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...A UCSD associate professor has come up with the Transborder Immigrant Tool.
 
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Morones said,  "It's going to be some sort of a device that would let people know where is the nearest road, where the nearest church, nearest border patrol station, possibly even some water."
 
There are some groups not happy with the app.
 
Barbara Coe founder of California Coalition for Immigration reform told the Orange County Register.  "The (professor) is aiding and abetting criminal activity.  He should be arrested and prosecuted."

read more here - http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Cell-phone-app-ehlps-illegal-immigrant-border/gSNI-Wwg10-KAK2Z7lvH2A.cspx (http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/story/Cell-phone-app-ehlps-illegal-immigrant-border/gSNI-Wwg10-KAK2Z7lvH2A.cspx)