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  • August 2008

    • Work Begins on Controversial San Diego Border Fence

      Associated Press  |  Aug 16, 08 4:58 AM CDT

      Work Begins on Controversial San Diego Border Fence

      (Newser) - Construction crews have launched work on a controversial section of the US-Mexico border fence near San Diego, AP reports. The Smuggler's Gulch canyon will be filled with dirt and a fence built at a cost of $16 million a mile. Critics charge the fence is no longer vital and the work will cause serious environmental damage. More »

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      San Diego  • illegal immigration  • Mexican border  • border security  • Border Patrol  • border fence  • Tijuana

    • Border Agents Have Right to Seize Any Traveler's Laptop

      Washington Post  |  Aug 1, 08 6:54 AM CDT

      Border Agents Have Right to Seize Any Traveler's Laptop

      (Newser) - US border agents can seize laptop computers or other electronc devices from any traveler entering the country and keep them indefinitely, even without suspicion of wrongdoing, the Washington Pos t reports. A policy update released by Homeland Security, dated July 16, says agents can keep any information-storing device they please and can share the data with other agencies, "absent individualized suspicion." More »

  • July 2008

    • McCain 'Wobbling' Leftward Again on Immigration

      The Hill  |  Jul 10, 08 7:10 PM CDT

      McCain 'Wobbling' Leftward Again on Immigration

      (Newser) - By John McCain’s own admission, his embrace of immigration reform nearly sunk his candidacy in the early primaries, writes Byron York in the Hill . But after saving his hide with a swing to the right and a pledge to "secure the border first" (a “legitimate flip-flop,” York specifies), the pendulum is moving leftward again. McCain recently told a Latino audience that comprehensive reform “will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” More »

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      John McCain  • immigration reform  • Latino voters  • flip flop  • border security

  • April 2008

    • UK Airports to Scan Faces

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 25, 08 12:18 PM CDT

      UK Airports to Scan Faces

      (Newser) - New facial recognition technology in which computers scan faces and match them to information encoded in biometric passports will be used at UK airports for the first time this summer, the Guardian reports. Authorities say the machines will outperform humans and improve security, but critics fear the technology will cause flight disruptions by generating too many false negatives. More »

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      terrorism  • airport security  • border security  • facial recognition technology  • UK Border Agency

    • Border Fence Will Skirt Environmental Laws

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 2, 08 5:40 AM CDT

      Border Fence Will Skirt Environmental Laws

      (Newser) - Homeland Security is ditching environmental laws in a push to finish 670 miles of border fence along Mexico by the end of this year, reports the Los Angeles Times . Congress has approved a waiver for more than 30 environmental and cultural laws to accelerate building. Critics say the plans are being pushed through without proper assessment and will endanger wildlife. More »

  • February 2008

    • Glitches Delay 'Virtual' Border Fence 3 Years

      Washington Post  |  Feb 28, 08 8:12 AM CST

      Glitches Delay 'Virtual' Border Fence 3 Years

      (Newser) - Plans to build a high-tech "virtual fence" along the US-Mexico border have been set back at least 3 years after serious problems emerged in the pilot project, the Washington Post reports. The 28-mile fence south of Tuscon, which included unmanned surveillance towers equipped with radar linked to computers, didn't function as planned. Boeing-installed commercial software wasn't powerful enough to process the data to detect illegal crossings, and had to be replaced. More »

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      Mexican border  • border security  • Border Patrol  • border fence  • radar  • virtual fence

    • Europe Moves to Fingerprint Travelers

      Washington Post  |  Feb 12, 08 1:25 PM CST

      Europe Moves to Fingerprint Travelers

      (Newser) - Just as Washington is pushing Europe to increase security, the European Parliament is considering fingerprinting every international traveler who enters or leaves the continent, the Washington Post reports. “It’s the only way to be really sure about identifying people,” an official said. The US backs the measure, which mirrors an American program, but some observers worry about privacy. More »

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      European Union  • airport security  • border security  • European Parliament  • biometrics

  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Border Strife Escalating in Tijuana

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 14, 07 4:18 PM CST

      Border Strife Escalating in Tijuana

      (Newser) - Areas of Tijuana that abut the American border have turned into battlegrounds, as Mexican smugglers lob rocks from rooftops at US Border Patrol agents, who have begun retaliating by firing pepper spray and tear gas into densely populated neighborhoods, the Los Angeles Times reports. The tactics have caused evacuations and sent both residents and agents to the hospital. More »

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      Mexico  • border security  • Border Patrol  • border fence  • Tijuana  • border dispute  • pepper spray

    • Immigration Fervor Could Burn GOP

      New Yorker  |  Dec 13, 07 1:19 PM CST

      Immigration Fervor Could Burn GOP

      (Newser) - The GOP contenders embracing anti-immigrant fervor may be sorely miscalculating, Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker, in a piece looking at the party's dramatic turn from the Bush strategy of cultivating immigrants in 2000 and 2004. The nativist passions Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have been fanning appeal to a vocal niche, he notes, but they’ve erased Republican gains among Hispanics and might be damaging the party.  More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • Rudy Giuliani  • Mike Huckabee  • Mexico  • immigration  • Hispanic  • Mexican border  • border security  • Tom Tancredo

  • September 2007

    • Canada-US Border Insecure

      CNN  |  Sep 27, 07 7:01 PM CDT

      Canada-US Border Insecure

      (Newser) - It is easy to smuggle radioactive material across the border between Canada and the US, CNN reports. Investigators from the Government Accountability Office testified before Congress today that they were able to pass from one country to the other with a duffle bag containing what looked like radioactive components, and never saw a police or border-security officer. More »

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      border security  • Border Patrol

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