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Border Patrol Foundation Inaugural Event

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November 10, 2009

The Border Patrol Foundation held its first annual recognition dinner in downtown D.C. to tout the creation of an organization whose mission is to “provide timely financial grants to the families of fallen” Border Patrol agents. Border Patrol agents often operate alone, in remote areas of our nation, many minutes and miles from backup or support. But given the impressive support shown by the Washington community at its inaugural event on Friday night, the Border Patrol Foundation appears to be off to a solid start.

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FBI techs shy away from facial recognition – Spends 40 years losing face

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November 4, 2009

A senior FBI technologist declared last month that after decades of evaluation, the agency sees no point in facial recognition. He said that 18,000 law enforcement agencies contribute fingerprints and DNA samples to the FBI’s databases and, at their peak, they submit 200,000+ identity verification queries a day. It’s a big operation, and it’s only going to grow, he said. What will be missing from this mix, however, is facial recognition.

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Delta Settles with Imams Over Religious Profiling

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October 28, 2009

Recently, Delta Airlines (formerly Northwest) settled a lawsuit filed by six imams who claimed they were profiled for their religion rather than suspicious behavior. They were subsequently removed from a flight and questioned by authorities. In July, a federal judge sent a strong message that the airline lacked probable cause to remove the imams from the flight by ruling that Delta could be held liable for civil damages. Delta settled with the Muslim clerics out of court.

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DHS information-sharing initiative stalls due to privacy concerns

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October 27, 2009

DHS information-sharing initiative stalls due to privacy concerns – Nextgov A proposed Homeland Security Department information-sharing initiative faces ongoing funding challenges, due to congressional concerns over privacy. For the third year in a row, Congress as part of the Homeland Security spending bill prohibited DHS from using appropriated funds to stand up the National Immigration […]

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DEA Announces Largest Single U.S. Strike Against Mexican Drug Cartels

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October 25, 2009

News from DEA, Domestic Field Divisions, New York City News Releases,10/22/09 DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart joined Attorney General Eric Holder and other federal officials today to announce the results of “Project Coronado”, a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation which targeted the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and […]

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Anti-gunrunning lauded, questioned: IG questions use of funding

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October 22, 2009

Just days after the Justice Department said its anti-gunrunning project on the U.S.-Mexico border had made “enormous inroads into stemming firearms-related violent crime” and touted a planned expansion of the program, the department’s Office of Inspector General on Monday said some funding for the $22 million project was not being properly used.

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FreightScan To Debut New Automated Dimensioning System

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October 22, 2009

FreightScan, LLC, a leader in the development and deployment of innovative technology solutions for the freight and logistics industry, will debut its newly developed FS100P automated dimensioning system for cargo scanning at the Air Cargo Americas 2009 show.The FS100P, a part of the FS100 family of cargo scanning products, is intended for use by small cargo and package operations that need to capture dimensions and images of cargo in a smaller scan area in one second’s time.

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Mexican official held in US custody says he doesn't want asylum

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October 20, 2009

Mexican official in US custody doesn’t want asylum – El Paso Times A Mexican human rights official who has publicly said he feared for his life has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities as an asylum-seeker—even though he doesn’t want American protection, his lawyer said.

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Does McCain back ban on Arpaio immigration sweeps?

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October 19, 2009

Does McCain back ban on Arpaio immigration sweeps? – Glenn Thrush – POLITICO.com Sen. John McCain — a fervent sponsor of immigration reform — is once again being dragged into the messy border war of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is defying the Obama administration’s ban on his highly controversial illegal immigrant sweeps in […]

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Cloud Computing: What are the Benefits? (Part II)

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October 19, 2009

As we continue to explore cloud computing, we will look at why we consider it, what cloud computing can do for an enterprise that adopts it, and briefly, a few of the different adoption models that might be considered.

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