US proposes plan to leave part of Mexico border unmanned
US officials have announced proposals for an unmanned border with Mexico, recent reports have shown.
In a bid that has raised the hands of both supporters and the opposition, decisions to implement automated document screening devices between the Mexican border town of Boquillas del Carmen and southern Texas have been made, the Associated Press reports.
The portals would sit in the Big Bend National Park and would allow people through when they scan passports and visas. They would later be summoned to a customs and immigration office nearly 100 miles from the border.
William Wellman, Big Bend National Park's superintendent, said: "You'd have to be a real idiot to pick the only place with security in 300 miles of the border to try to sneak across."
He added that people involved in illegal activities such as drug smuggling would still find a way to do it.
If the plans are put into action, the park would be manned by eight border patrol agents as well as the 23 law enforcement rangers.
The Mexican army found a tunnel linking Mexico to Nogales, Arizona, which is believed to have been used to transport illegal immigrants into the US.
