The new 98-foot tower installed in the first section of the Homeland Security Department’s SBInet surveillance system is not on the border: It is 11 miles north, just outside Arivaca, Ariz. Residents of the small high-desert community — Arivaca is not an incorporated town — demanded at a May 15 meeting with DHS and Boeing Co. to know why they were asked to host the tower. Arivaca is one of the first communities in which residents are protesting the border system, but it is not likely to be the only one. The aggressive schedule to build the surveillance system on the southern U.S. border is beginning to cause friction with homeowners in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
(Washington Technology story; DHS SBI Web site)
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