Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, according to flight logs recently released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group.

Nearly half of terrorists crossing into the U.S. to perform violent acts or escaping from the country were American citizens. 

Citing recent murders, raids and car chases, Gov. Jan Brewer refused the U.S. Government's claims that the border is the safest it has been in years.