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So one year we received some funding from the Asset Forfeiture Fund,

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which is basically the bad guys funding our equipment.

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And we were able to buy personal protective equipment items related to confined space entry.

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The following year we were allowed to buy some robots.

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So we bought, we actually had enough to buy one, one year

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and this year the Asset Forfeiture Fund also provided some funding for us to buy some additional robots.

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We do all safety checks and precautions before make entry into the tunnel,

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but once we make it in, it's still an unknown, and that's where the robots come into play.

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We do have one robot now and we have three on order with one going to San Diego Sector.

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Once those arrive, that robot is more designed for the illicit tunnel,

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our current robot is more designed for pipes.

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So once we can send a robot in first and clear the tunnel --

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that takes a lot of the safety and the unknown into consideration and can clear the tunnel for us.

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Any way you look at it, we still have to verify and validate that the tunnel penetrates the border

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to classify it as a "cross-border tunnel"

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so a person will need to enter the tunnel the way current standards are.