Six Northrop Grumman airborne radar systems that cost $9.3 million each, 15 Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters that average more than $17 million apiece, eight AS-350 models Black Hawk helicopters with digital cockpit, eight light enforcement helicopters made by American Eurocopter that sell for about $3 million each, 17 UH-1N helicopters made by Bell Helicopter, 4,595 unattended ground sensors, 104 radiation isotope identification devices, 53 fiber-optic tank inspection scopes, four new drones, on top of 10 unmanned aircraft that the Border Patrol already owns, are on the US Border Patrol’s wish list, according to the Washington Post.
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In addition, $7.5 billion will be spent to build 350 miles of fencing along the US-Mexican border, $4.5 billion to buy new border technology and $30 billion will be spent over the next decade to hire more than 19,000 new Border Patrol agents that would double the size of the force. Many immigration experts agree that these measures are considered wasteful and unnecessary.
According to the Washington Post, the provisions were aimed at assuaging the concerns of Republicans who are wary about creating a path to citizenship without tougher border measures.
The critics of the $46 billion border security package claim that specific products indicated in the wish list are aimed at defense contractors, who are looking for opportunities as the United States continues to reduce its presence in Afghanistan. According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, since 2009 military companies and corporations spent nearly $11.5 million to election campaigns and federal candidates who have voted for the package.
Meanwhile, officials in Mexico have raised complaints by the US plans to spend tens of billions of dollars for additional fencing and other security along the US-Mexico border.
"We are convinced that fences don't unite. They are not the solution to the immigration phenomenon and they don't jibe with a modern and secure border," said Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade . "They don't contribute to the development of the competitive region that both countries seek to promote."
The influx of Mexican immigrants has declined. According to the US Border Patrol it has detained about 1.6 million undocumented immigrants in 2000 and just over 260,000 last year at the US-Mexican border.
According to the National Review, over the past five years, the net increase of 2.3 million immigrants, but net migration from Mexico was zero. As Mexican immigration has faded, immigration from Asia, the rest of Latin America, and Africa has increased.
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