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“On the Road Again” with Secretary Napolitano, One Logical Trip Missing from Schedule

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April 25, 2011

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has been making numerous public appearances throughout the country. I applaud Secretary Napolitano’s efforts communicating with the public, but what I do not understand is that among her many domestic travel destinations, Napolitano has never visited the one place Arizona where DHS has made a major investment – the area where the “SBInet” technology has been deployed and is currently being used with great success.

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Accusations that Border Patrol is turning aliens back to Mexico rather than apprehending

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April 20, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Sheriff Cites Flood of Border Agents Confirming Feds’ No-Apprehension Policy – FoxNews.com An Arizona sheriff says he has been flooded with calls and emails of support from local and federal agents who back his claims that the U.S. Border Patrol has effectively ordered them to stop apprehending illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. […]

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Smugglers use portable ramp to jump border fence

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April 19, 2011

Smugglers use portable ramp to jump border fence – Homeland Security Newswire
Drug smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border are relying on increasingly more innovative ways to bypass additional security measures deployed along the southern border.

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Mexican drug cartels seek to exploit corrupt U.S. federal agents

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April 13, 2011

Drug cartels seek to exploit corrupt federal agents (4/11/11) — GovExec.com It’s not clear when Louis Enrique Ramirez took his first bribe. In the summer of 2005, the former customs inspector apparently began cutting deals with smugglers to allow undocumented immigrants as well as the occasional load of drugs across the Southwest border from Mexico […]

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Lawmakers Seek Extension Of National Guard Border Security Operation

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April 4, 2011

Lawmakers Seek Extension Of National Guard Border Security Operation – HSToday
Ten Republican lawmakers wrote to President Barack Obama Friday to request the extension of the National Guard’s support mission along the US southwest border.

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80 Miles North of the Arizona Border, The Drugs Keep Coming

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March 28, 2011

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.

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TSA Gets Creative in Meeting 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate

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March 17, 2011

The TSA is still engaged in a game of intellectual Twister, bending every which way to meet an impossible congressional mandate that it enforce the screening of 100 percent of all cargo — domestic as well as international. The new suggested deadline shoots for all inbound cargo to be screened by December. God bless the TSA for continuing in its creative efforts to meet the mandate without undermining security, provoking allies and clogging commerce.

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Drug-War Tensions Rise with U.S. Agent's Killing

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February 22, 2011

Mexico: Drug-War Tensions Rise with U.S. Agent’s Killing – TIME Publicly, the Calderón and Obama administrations have continued to paint a rosy picture of the U.S. and Mexico marching side by side to defeat the common adversary of drug cartels. But as revealed in WikiLeaks cables and offhand comments by officials on both sides of […]

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U.S.-Mexican law enforcement coalition curbs border crime

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February 11, 2011

U.S.-Mexican coalition curbs border crime – Laura Rozen – POLITICO.com A coalition of U.S. and Mexican police agencies is being credited with playing an instrumental role in curtailing drug smuggling and illegal immigration along the Arizona border. The Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats, which combines U.S. Border Patrol, Mexican federal police and 60 American agencies, […]

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Mexican official: 34,612 drug-war deaths in 4 yrs

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January 18, 2011

The Associated Press: Mexican official: 34,612 drug-war deaths in 4 yrs A total of 34,612 people have died in drug-related killings in Mexico in the four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an offensive against drug cartels, officials said Wednesday. The killings reached their highest level in 2010, jumping by almost 60 percent to […]

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