Napolitano Defends Administration on Border Enforcement – The New York Times
Obama administration officials, embattled on all sides on immigration, are pushing back to defend their record on border enforcement and deportations of illegal immigrants.
Secure Border Act Would Tell DHS To Prevent All Illegal Entries Within 5 Years – HSToday
A House bill introduced Thursday would direct the Department of Homeland Security to produce a border security strategy to gain “operational control” of US borders in a five-year timeframe.
In this April Fools Edition, we’ve collected some stories the rest of the media somehow missed.
Revisiting Immigration – HSToday
In the closing moments of 2010, congressional Democrats made a last-minute attempt to pass an immigration reform bill that potentially would have provided a path to legalization for millions of young college students and military service members whose parents brought them into the United States illegally. They failed.
New footage from March 2, 2011, shows seven drug mules likely carrying about $50,000 worth of marijuana each. The trail where the motion-sensor hidden cameras were placed is 80 miles north of the border, due north of the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, which has seen a marked increase in drug mule traffic since the creation of two “apprehension” zones on either side of the reservation’s boundaries.
Apply Strategic Sourcing To Buying Detection Equipment, IG Tells DHS – HSToday
The strategic sourcing of detection equipment at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) could help its agencies save money and standardize its equipment purchases, recommended the DHS inspector general (IG) Tuesday.
Last week, as the world was focused on the crisis in Japan and the military action in Libya, the Associated Press reported on the use of Predator UAVs to help Mexican authorities in their war on drug cartels. Yet, at a conference at MIT’s Lincoln Labs on Homeland Security technology, I learned that the Predator was ineffective for wide-area surveillance during the Deep Water Horizon disaster. It was scrapped after less than two weeks. Congress should look closely at the cost/benefit of UAVs and how their use in Mexico deviates from the DHS mission.
China overwhelming U.S. with counterfeit goods – Homeland Security Newswire
U.S. companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales from products that are counterfeited overseas and shipped to America; since most fake products are never seized by authorities, the federal government cannot get an accurate measurement of the economic loss; according to CBP, these fake goods “threaten America’s economic vitality and national security, and the American people’s health and safety.”
More Money, More Cameras, Along Arizona/Mexican Border – Ares
Now that the Department of Homeland Security has capped its $800 million SBInet border surveillance program at only 53 mi. of Arizona borderland, the government has been scrambling to find other ways to get better situational awareness of who and what is trying to get across the Arizona/Mexico border.
Secure Communities Program Uses Biometrics to Target Illegal Immigrants – Emergency Management
As of last week, any person arrested and fingerprinted in California will now undergo an automatic immigration check. California became the ninth state in which each county has activated Secure Communities, a fingerprint data-sharing program between local law enforcement offices and federal immigration enforcement agencies.
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