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.
Are maritime security and operational efficiency mutually exclusive?
December 3rd, 2007
If you listen to Jayson Ahern, the deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as I did last Wednesday during his speech at the Maritime Security Conference in New York City, you see a skilled government official trying to balance two competing sets of interests.
DHS technology advisors to examine IED threat
November 20th, 2007
Improvised explosive devices, known as IEDs, will be thrust into the spotlight at an upcoming meeting of the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, slated for December 4 through 6 in Washington, DC.
Man and his best friend linked by a communications vest
November 2nd, 2007
It used to be that technologists would throw up their hands and admit that virtually nothing can beat the sensitivity and accuracy of an explosive-sniffing dog’s nose.
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Congressional panel OKs anti alien smuggling bill
October 31st, 2007
A key House panel has approved legislation that would prohibit the use of ships to smuggle illegal immigrants.
The measure (H.R. 2830) would make smuggling illegal immigrants by ship a federal felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison or $100,000 in fines.
CBP procurement of light choppers zooms sky high
October 29th, 2007
Customs and Border Protection is dramatically increasing its appetite to put eyes in the sky with the announcement last Friday that it intends to buy "up to fifty" Light Enforcement Helicopters.
U.S. Border Patrol loves car #28 on NASCAR’s Busch Series
October 24th, 2007
Because the U.S. Border Patrol was founded on May 28th in 1924, the number 28 has always held a special place in the heart of this hard-working agency.
Say "Ahhh"… or is that "Arfff"?
October 11th, 2007
One hundred narcotic detection dogs used by the Border Patrol in Arizona are getting the type of annual medical checkups that millions of uninsured U.S. citizens might envy.
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Coast Guard to track ships – with or without the IMO
October 8th, 2007
Even if the International Maritime Organization (IMO) seeks a delay in the implementation of a new system designed to track the geographic location of ships throughout the world, the U.S. Coast Guard has announced that it intends to begin using the tracking system, as planned, on December 31, 2008.
