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Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras on private land along the Mexican border and put the live video on the Internet, so that anyone with a computer who spots illegal immigrants trying to slip across can report it on a toll-free hot line. 'I look at this as not different from the neighborhood watches we have had in our communities for years and years,' Perry said last week. Under the plan, announced on the eve of the state Republican convention, cameras and other equipment would be supplied to willing landowners and placed along some of the most remote reaches of the border. The live video would be made available to law enforcement and anyone else with an Internet connection. Opponents of the plan say it is a dangerous idea and a waste of money. 'This is just one of those half-baked ideas that people dream up to save money but have no practical applications,' said Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project in Austin. 'We would be far better off to invest that money in Mexican small towns along the border so people wouldn't have to emigrate.'
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