So one year we received some funding from the Asset Forfeiture Fund,
which is basically the bad guys funding our equipment.
And we were able to buy personal protective equipment items related to confined space entry.
The following year we were allowed to buy some robots.
So we bought, we actually had enough to buy one, one year
and this year the Asset Forfeiture Fund also provided some funding for us to buy some additional robots.
We do all safety checks and precautions before make entry into the tunnel,
but once we make it in, it's still an unknown, and that's where the robots come into play.
We do have one robot now and we have three on order with one going to San Diego Sector.
Once those arrive, that robot is more designed for the illicit tunnel,
our current robot is more designed for pipes.
So once we can send a robot in first and clear the tunnel --
that takes a lot of the safety and the unknown into consideration and can clear the tunnel for us.
Any way you look at it, we still have to verify and validate that the tunnel penetrates the border
to classify it as a "cross-border tunnel"
so a person will need to enter the tunnel the way current standards are.