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In a report released April 2, 1999, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers released a proposal for strengthening security along the 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Among the proposals is a call for the installation of 4,000 floodlights and 165 surveillance cameras, to occur over the next five years. Officials are not certain whether the report will be put into action, but if it is, construction projects would be carried out by military personnel, under the supervision of the INS. This type of joint arrangement has come under fire since the summer of 1997, when a U.S. Marine, leading an anti-drug patrol, shot and killed a local high school student. Similar projects are already underway throughout Texas, which has seen increasing attempts at illegal border crossings as border security to the west has been tightened. One of the projects, Operation Rio Grande, has come under fire from both immigrant advocate groups and environmental groups, who allege the construction along the border damages the fragile ecological systems of the area.
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