A New T.I.T. For Illegals

And they wonder why we call California the land of fruit and nuts?

Faculty members at the University of California, San Diego are using federal dollars to develop a GPS-enabled cell phone that would direct illegal border crossers to drinking water. The “Trans-border Immigrant Tool” would allow users to follow arrows on the screen to nearby water stations.

With $15,000 from a federal grant [stimulus dollars], the designers hope to hand out the phones for free in Mexico.

University of California, San Diego faculty member Brett Stalbaum dismisses critics who say this will encourage illegal immigration, arguing:   “There are many areas in which every American would say— I don’t like the way my tax dollars are being spent. Our answer to that is an in-your-face, so what?”

Just shorten the tool’s name to “T.I.T.”  Entirely appropos for a future-vote-buying gimmick from the progressive liberals.