UAVs to patrol Canadian border

The Associated Press

Posted : Saturday Jan 13, 2007 12:26:03 EST - WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Unmanned surveillance aircraft will start
patrolling the Canadian border by this fall, a Department of Homeland
Security official said. The propeller-driven drones, called Predators, will begin patrolling
U.S. airspace along the border with Canada by September and will fly
day and night, said Scott Baker, chief patrol agent of Customs and
Border Protection, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security.