The United States will have "operational control" of its border with Mexico by 2013 as it builds walls, installs surveillance equipment and beefs up manpower to keep out illegal immigrants, U.S. Border Patrol Director David Aguilar said on Wednesday.
He said currently there are plans to put up 370 miles of walls, but a high-tech network of radar, satellite technology, unmanned aerial vehicles and communications equipment will keep watch on most of the 2,000-mile border.
"We will have the capability to detect, classify, identify, respond to and resolve those border incursions," Aguilar told a border security conference.
"I made the statement that the U.S. Border Patrol will have operational control of that border by 2013," he said to reporters later.
Wow... so if the terrorists don't hit us for SIX YEARS, good Lord willin', and prayin' that de creek don't rise...