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New legislation aims to curb border tunnel trafficking
Lawmakers joined with immigration and border security officials Wednesday to unveil legislation aimed at helping prosecute smugglers who traffic drugs and humans into the U.S. through underground...
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Texas gets a second aerial drone for border security
A second unmanned aerial vehicle will soon be based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, providing surveillance of the Gulf Coast and the U.S.-Mexico border above Texas, officials said Wednesday. A...
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New Mexican border drone arrives at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station
The second unmanned aircraft to patrol the Texas-Mexico border has arrived at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. A spokesman for Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo confirms that the Predator drone arrived...
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Texas border officials wants feds to spend billions on crossings
A coalition of Texas border officials released a report Thursday that claims security blunders and the lack of a cohesive strategy to combat smuggling has empowered Mexican drug cartels. But despite...
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Immigration enforcement faces modest cuts in Obama budget plan
If approved by Congress, the budget would maintain funds and the number of deployed officers along the north and south borders, streamline collection data from international travelers and expand...
View ArticleHomeland security chief defends failure to inspect 100 percent of cargo...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano faced congressional criticism Wednesday for her department’s failure to inspect 100 percent of arriving cargo containers as required by federal law....
View ArticleRep. Pete Gallego: Sequestration ‘one of biggest threats to border security’
Republicans are accusing Democrats of “crying wolf” by exaggerating the impact of the upcoming across-the-board budget cuts on average Americans. But to Rep. Pete Gallego, a freshman Democrat from...
View ArticleTexas Rep. John Carter: Any new immigration policy will start with secure...
Rep. John Carter warned Customs and Border Protection officials that as immigration policies come to a head in Congress, the agency will likely be involved in the first steps of implementing any new...
View ArticleSenate passes 3 immigration amendments, none from Cornyn or Cruz
Ted Cruz and John Cornyn have thus far failed to strengthen the border security provisions of the Gang of Eight immigration bill. Cruz proposed seven new amendments today.
View ArticleGAO report: Long wait times at border entry points could hamper U.S. economy
Inconsistent and unreliable data collection methods for wait times at the U.S.- Mexico border could hamper the economy according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. "I hope the Obama...
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