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Border Protection

The growth of illegal immigration across the nation's borders, particularly those with Mexico, has led DHS to begin erecting a fence across hundreds of miles of open land, beef up the Border Patrol, promote its SBInet program and engage CBP in a huge effort to encourage legal immigration while staunching the flow of illegal migrants.

March 2nd, 2009

The U.S. Departments of State (DoS) and Homeland Security (DHS) have jointly certified that all necessary statutory criteria have been met prior to implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) at land and sea borders on June 1, 2009.

The certification to Congress by the two departments was required so that WHTI implementation could take place.

February 26th, 2009

Andre Dwayne Suggs, who is serving a 30-year prison term after being convicted of second degree murder for strangling a bicycle rider in Alexandria, VA, in 2005, probably wishes he had never encountered John Morton, the assistant U.S. attorney at the time, who successfully prosecuted his case.

Likewise, Hans Gouw, who pled guilty in 2005 to recruiting young women in Indonesia, aged 16 to 23, to come to the U.S. fraudulently and work as striptease dancers and prostitutes, may regret the day he crossed paths with John Morton, who prosecuted his sex trafficking charges.

February 17th, 2009

The arrival of the Obama administration offers an opportunity to rethink northern border security, so that economic issues also are considered, along with the security and law-enforcement perspectives that have dominated American thinking about border management since 9/11.

That is the top line perspective of a new research report, just issued by the Canadian International Council (CIC), which characterizes itself as a "non-partisan, nationwide council established to strengthen Canada's role in international affairs."

February 16th, 2009

A 23-year-old man who was wanted by the FBI for alleged homicide, kidnapping, battery and escape – and is featured on the Web site of the TV show "America's Most Wanted" – was apprehended by Customs and Border Protection as he walked through the port of entry in San Ysidro, CA, on Feb. 14 at about 10:15 PM.

February 13th, 2009

In order to anticipate traffic congestion at various land entry points on the U.S.-Canadian border, Customs and Border Protection is thinking of installing “passive” monitoring systems -- perhaps radar, license plate readers, magnetic loops in the roadway or Bluetooth communications systems -- that could watch vehicles in Canada approaching the border from approximately 10 miles away.

February 3rd, 2009

A Honolulu, HI-based company, Kai Sensors, will provide its non-contact vital-signs sensors, which monitor breathing patterns from a distance, to the Department of Homeland Security.

According to a Kai statement, it and DHS "will be working together in the next few months to integrate Kai Sensors’ products into planned Department of Homeland Security projects."

February 2nd, 2009

The Senate version of the Obama Administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is beginning to resemble a glittering Christmas tree, as billions in new security expenditures are being added, like ornaments, to the legislation's branches.

January 29th, 2009

The $819 billion stimulus bill passed by the House on Jan. 28 includes $500 million for new explosive detection systems and checkpoint technologies at U.S. airports, $150 million for new inspection facilities at land border entry points and $100 million for detection technologies at sea ports.

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