The technology will also be used as part of efforts to tackle the drug trade into the US.
The U.S. border patrol is preparing to deploy a new blimp in New Mexico to watch over a lethal route commonly used by migrants attempting to enter the country.A high-tech surveillance blimp, known as an aerostat, will take to the skies near the Santa Teresa port of entry in the El Paso sector, which has seen over 140 migrant deaths since October.
The main aim for the visit was to highlight the congress members' Stop Fentanyl at the Border Act, which they recently announced.'Last year, we lost more than 110,000 Americans to overdose deaths,' the senator said in a press release. 'Here in New Mexico, we have the 6th highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the entire country.
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