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10/26/2009 - How far has the U.S. government come in removing security vulnerabilities that allowed the 9-11 attackers to obtain travel visas fraudulently and remain in the country even after they expired?
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DHS, Pentagon Battle Over National Guard at the Border

08/12/2009 - The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are fighting over who will pay for National Guardsmen ordered to help protect the southwest border from Mexican drug violence, reports The Houston Chronicle and the Associated Press.
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Security Trumps Design at U.S. Port of Entry

07/27/2009 - Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) decision to tear down a huge sign welcoming travelers into the United States from Canada is more evidence that when security and design face each other down in post-9-11 America, security wins, reports The New York Times.
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Senators Raise Concerns Over E-Verify as Illegal Immigration Detentions Drop

07/22/2009 - Illegal immigrants with stolen Social Security numbers are still beating the federal government's employment eligibility verification system, warned senators yesterday at a subcommittee hearing. Meanwhile, government numbers show the fewest number of illegal immigrants caught sneaking across the border since the 1970s.
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United States and Spain Formalize Program to Identify "High-Risk" Travelers

07/01/2009 - The United States and Spain today formalized a program that identifies high-risk travelers at Madrid Barajas International Airport before they can board a flight to the United States.
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Administration Plans to Send National Guard to Mexican Border?

06/30/2009 - The Obama administration is planning to seek as many as 1500 National Guardsmen to secure the nation's border with Mexico, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
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New CBP Rules Will Redefine Many Knives as "Switchblades"

06/29/2009 - Customs and Border Protection's proposal to designate any knife that opens using a spring- or release-assisted mechanism a switchblade, thus barring its import into the United States, has provoked outrage on Capitol Hill as well as among sportsmen organizations and knifemakers.
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CBP Testing Drone Along Northern Border

06/25/2009 - Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has adopted a new addition to help the agency watch over the northern border in upstate New York: a Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System, according to WWTI in Watertown, New York.
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New DHS Border Radiation Detectors Fare Marginally in Tests, Investigators Say

06/22/2009 - Tests of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s next-generation radiation portal detectors slated for use at the country’s ports of entry yielded mixed results, spurring the government’s watchdog agency to recommend further testing and phased fielding of the devices.
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Is There A Drug War Going On Inside the U.S. Government?

06/16/2009 - That's what Bradley C. Schreiber, a former a senior adviser at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2007 to 2009, argued on The New York Times op-ed page yesterday.
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Texas Prisons Implementing Screening of Criminal Illegal Aliens

05/26/2009 - Texas prisons have begun implementing a new Obama administration policy to check the immigration status of all incoming prisoners processed, reports The Houston Chronicle.
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Lawmakers Blast DHS Protective Mask Policy

05/15/2009 - The Department of Homeland Security was roundly criticized during a subcommittee hearing yesterday for not formalizing the use of protective masks for border control agents after swine flu spread into the United States from Mexico, reports The Washington Post.
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E-Verify Gains in Popularity Before It's a Must for Federal Contractors

05/14/2009 - About a thousand employers a week are subscribing to the government's voluntary Web-based program to check on the legal working status of job applicants.
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