Glow Dust For Tracking Illegals?

Using glowdust to track illegals?

In a proposal likely to add to the angry debate about illegal immigration in California, a well-known scientist is calling for the U.S. Border Patrol to sprinkle fluorescent dust at the U.S.-Mexico border in order to track down illegal border-crossers.

The low-cost, low-tech plan would improve border enforcement dramatically and pose no danger to people “tagged” by the glowing dust, according to an article in today’s edition of Science magazine.

“Twilight Zone” feeling

But the somewhat surreal, politically charged image of the U.S. government exposing illegal immigrants to chemicals, then tracking them down with lasers and ultraviolet lights provoked criticism from immigrants’ advocates.

“It’s incredible,” said activist Roberto Martinez of the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego. “It’s like something out of the Twilight Zone. The symbolism is that these are not humans, that these are insects to be sprayed.”

Not a bad idea, and useful for a lot of things beyond illegals.

A more useful idea might be micro RFID tags, dispersed along the border Hitachi has got them down to .15mm x.15mm:

The Japanese giant Hitachi has developed the world’s smallest and thinnest Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip. Measuring only 0.15 x 0.15 millimeters in size …

Hitachi Smallest RFID ChipNicknamed “Powder” or “Dust”, these chips consist of 128-bit ROM (Read Only Memory) that can store a 38-digit number…

The µ-Chip uses an external antenna to receive radio waves, which can be transformed and wirelessly transmitted as a unique ID number…

The company said that the enhanced compactness and thinness of the new chip has further broadened the range of possible applications, including gift certificates that can be authenticated. The new RFID “powder” can also be incorporated into thin paper, such as currency, creating so-called “bugged” money…

According to the Nikkei website, Hitachi is now planning on developing an even smaller RFID chip using 65-nanometer lithographic technology.

That was where the technology was two years ago. If you left booby traps that sprayed them, you could coat the target’s clothing and hair. If you sealed them against acid and spiked food, all you would need is one trapped in the appendix, or remaining somewhere in the GI tract. Even if they were just left on the ground one could easily stick to the sole of a shoe, or be blown into the wind and picked up on clothes and socks. Then all you would need is RFID readers at major city thoroughfares, or in trucks that drive around cities, looking for illegals.

Once this technology makes its way to ebay, all sorts of other uses could be envisioned.

Of course being in the alt-right, we all probably already have those things dispersed throughout our hair and clothes already.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because we need to start tracking those illegals as well as we track our own citizens