At the thirteenth annual Border Security Expo, held in late March in San Antonio, U.S. Border Patrol sellers shopped for surveillance drones, drone-disabling frequency guns, fiber-optic perimeter-tracking structures, safety dogs, car scanners, and other gadgets to stop drugs and those from coming into the U.S. Illegally. Ronald Vitiello, who weeks later would resign as meantime director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of a broader Department of Homeland Security purge, got the celebrity treatment. Nobody talked much about the wall.
Not long after the expo, President Donald Trump suddenly pulled Vitiello’s nomination to guide the organization permanently, telling reporters he wanted to “go in a tougher direction.” Vitiello’s profession started in 1985 as a Border Patrol agent, and he formerly served as chief of the Border Patrol under Trump.
A Caucasian shepherd dog named Tim, brought to San Antonio from Pahrump, Nev.-primarily based Est-Alfa K-nine Security Service LLC, attacks a motorized Pete the Perp dummy made through Krausko Tactical LLC. The dogs are bred in Estonia and may weigh up to one hundred sixty pounds. The form is designed to withstand attacks—anything short of stay rounds. An IR-Patrol scope from optical equipment maker Trijicon Inc. Suggests human beings on the convention in a tough part view. The area sits on a rifle and can seize pix and video. Trijicon’s biggest clients are federal regulation enforcement corporations.
Andy Morabe, director of sales and advertising for IXI EW, holds the Dronekiller, which produces radio alerts that could disrupt a drone’s communique machine. The unit costs $32,500 and is authorized for sale handiest to the Navy and different U.S. Federal corporations. The SkyWall100, made using OpenWorks Engineering Ltd., shoots an internet that may capture and ground a drone potentially wearing smuggled items or tablets. It became one of the products proven on the Border Security Expo’s Demo Day at the Bandera Gun Club in Bandera, Texas.
