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First Unmanned Border Station On The U.S.-Mexico Border To Open Soon In Texas

Texas To Open First Unmanned Border Station
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Deputy Editor HuffPost Latino Voices & Voces

NOGALES, MEXICO - JULY 27: Mexican immigrant Luis Manuel, 29, walks along the U.S.- Mexico border after being deported from Arizona to Nogales, Mexico on July 27, 2010 in Nogales, Mexico. Despite fears surrounding Arizona's new immigration law SB 1070, Manuel said that he's planning on trying to cross again into the United States, where he had been working as an undocumented gardener in Phoenix for the last 6 months. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
NOGALES, MEXICO - JULY 27: Mexican immigrant Luis Manuel, 29, walks along the U.S.- Mexico border after being deported from Arizona to Nogales, Mexico on July 27, 2010 in Nogales, Mexico. Despite fears surrounding Arizona's new immigration law SB 1070, Manuel said that he's planning on trying to cross again into the United States, where he had been working as an undocumented gardener in Phoenix for the last 6 months. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Get ready for the very first "unmanned" border station on the U.S.-Mexico border. Slated to open at the end of this month, the Big Bend National Park in Texas will be staffed by, you guessed it, computers.

The station will be equipped with machines that can scan citizenship documents and conduct live video interviews with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at a station in El Paso, Texas, Tech News Daily reports. While Mexican citizens will be able to use the crossing, U.S. officials maintain that Americans tourists to the national park are more likely to do so. When a similar CBP crossing was open in the same location more than a decade ago, few Mexicans used it. In 2002, because of increased security measures, U.S. officials closed the original crossing, forcing tourists to travel more than 100 miles to the next nearest crossing to get to Mexico, according to Nextgov.

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