Transport / Border

  • ImmigrationIllegal immigration to the U.S. dropped sharply since 2007

    Between March 2000 and March 2005, 850,000 illegal immigrants entered the United States annually; between March 2007 and March 2009, the number dropped to 300,000 annually; the flow of Mexicans, who represent 60 percent of all illegal immigrants in the United States, plummeted to 150,000 annually during the 2007-9 period, compared with the annual average of 500,000 during the 2000-5 period; experts say that the slowing economy and bleak job market for low-skill workers, not tighter border security, have played the biggest role in the drop in illegal entrants

  • Pakistani military delegation cancels U.S. talks over stringent security checks

    A high-level Pakistani military delegation has cancelled a visit to the United States after members of an earlier delegation, which came to the United States to visit the U.S. military's Central Command (CENTCOM), were subjected to stringent -- the Pakistanis say "unwarranted" -- security checks at Dulles International Airport

  • Maritime securityU.S. Navy buys sensor system from FLIR to protect ships from terrorist attacks

    U.S. Navy ship systems designers needed electro-optical sensor systems for the Shipboard Protection System (SPS), which helps protect Navy surface vessels from terrorist attacks while moored to piers, at anchor, or during restricted maneuvering; they found their solution from Wilsonville, Oregon-based FLIR Systems

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  • Border securitySix UAVs to patrol border from California to Texas

    DHS secretary Janet Napolitano said that by the beginning of next year, the number of UAVs operating along the U.S.-Mexico border would be up to six, providing "critical aerial surveillance assistance"; previously, drones were not approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for use in a stretch of west Texas

  • Mexico: descent into chaosMexico to up security in border city after blasts

    Following a series of explosions in downtown Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, the Mexican government is rushing reinforcements to the city; at the same time, thirty-five of the seventy-two bodies found in a mass grave on Saturday had been identified: sixteen Hondurans, thirteen Salvadorans, five Guatemalans, and a Brazilian; they were killed after refusing to cooperate with drug gangs

  • Mexico: descent into chaosBusinesses cope with Mexico security risks, pass costs to consumers

    Faced with the threat of smuggling attempts by criminal organizations in Mexico, foreign companies are simply doing more, spending more, and in the process charging consumers more to shore up security in a country where killings, kidnappings, and extortions have become a part of daily life

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  • Border securityNew illegal immigration frontier: the sea

    There is a new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States -- a roughly 400-square-mile ocean expanse that stretches from a bullring on the shores of Tijuana, Mexico, to suburban Los Angeles; in growing numbers, migrants are gambling their lives at sea as land crossings become even more arduous and likely to end in arrest; while only a small fraction of border arrests are at sea; authorities say heightened enforcement on land, and a bigger fence are making the offshore route more attractive

  • Border securityMoney smuggling across border grows despite increased enforcement

    U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities only seize about 1 percent of cash from drug trafficking, despite increased efforts by both countries; stemming the flow of cash is vital to efforts by the United States and Mexico to take down drug cartels, as drug cartels depend on cash from wholesale drug sales to gangs in the United States

  • Aviation securityFAA: Nigeria meets Category 1 aviation safety rating

    FAA announces that Nigeria is now in compliance with international safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); with the IASA Category 1 rating, Nigerian air carriers may now apply to operate to the United States with their own aircraft

  • Immigration matters // by David B. PalinskyState of Arizona files Opening Brief in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

    State of Arizona filed an appeal of Judge Susan Bolton's decision which accepted many of the Obama administration's objections to the Arizona Immigration law; the appeal argues that the Arizona law does not amount to a usurpation by the state of federal power

  • Mexico: descent into chaosMexico deploys Israeli UAVs in war on drug cartels

    Since December 2006, nearly 30,000 Mexicans have been killed in that country's increasingly vicious drug war; the relentless flow of guns from the United States into Mexico has significantly strengthened the drug cartels, allowing them not only to withstand the efforts by the Mexican authorities to impose law and order, but in many cases to take the operational initiative, making large swaths of the country ungovernable; the Mexican government, for its part, is bolstering its own capabilities: last year it has secretly purchased surveillance UAVs from Israel to perform monitoring tasks in border areas and near strategic installations in the country

  • Skeletal scans could be newest screening technique

    The adult skeleton has 206 bones; size, shape, density, and joint structure make each skeleton slightly different; throw in an extra lumbar vertebrae or extra rib -- which some people have -- as well as previously broken bones, implants, screws, and other identifying characteristics, and the signatures become even more individual

  • Securing the global supply chain is daunting task

    The global supply chain consists of 140 million shipping containers; the United States has 12,000 miles of coastline, making it hard to funnel cargo through a limited number of entrances; currently, security officials inspect only 6 percent of all cargo coming into the United States; one security experts says: "If you double that, we still have a long way to go-- If you triple that, we still have a long way to go"

  • HAZMATRailroads do not let HAZMAT teams know what is on train

    Lethal chemicals roll through the backyards of cities and towns without the knowledge of these towns; residents; railroads do not share information about the schedule and contents of HAZMAT cargo with these towns' emergency services, so the services cannot prepare for catastrophe; if chlorine or ammonia were to escape from a punctured tanker -- in an accident or derailment -- it would form a toxic cloud; a compromised 90-ton rail car of chlorine could create a plume fifteen miles long by five miles wide; the U.S. railroad industry transported some 75,000 tank cars of toxic inhalants nationwide in 2009

  • Mexico: descent into chaosBiggest mass graves linked to drug-related violence uncovered in Mexico

    Seventy-two bodies found in a mass grave on a ranch in northern Mexico; in recent months an increasing number of mass graves have been discovered; in June, police recovered fifty-five bodies from an abandoned mine near Taxco, in Guerrerro state

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  • Explosives car in Mexican drug war the beginning of a trend

    Security experts fear that last Thursday car bombing in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, is the beginning of deadly trend which will see a weapon used regularly --and effectively -- by insurgents and militants in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere soon making its presence felt on the streets of Mexico

  • Israel's top 10 airport security technologies, II

    No-one understands security as the Israelis do, and this is why some of the world's best new innovative airport security technologies are being developed in Israel; since the foiled Christmas Day attempt on a Detroit-bound plane, airport authorities around the world are in a race to find novel solutions to fight terror, and the strategies and technical tactics Israel has adopted feature high on their lists

  • Israel's top 10 airport security technologies, I

    No-one understands security as the Israelis do, and this is why some of the world's best new innovative airport security technologies are being developed in Israel; since the foiled Christmas Day attempt on a Detroit-bound plane, airport authorities around the world are in a race to find novel solutions to fight terror, and the strategies and technical tactics Israel has adopted feature high on their lists

  • DHS collects -- and keeps -- large amount of information on U.S. citizens traveling abroad

    Are you an American citizen frequently traveling abroad? You may be surprised by how much of your personal information DHS collects -- and stores; now you have a way of finding out

  • Somali pirates benefit from a global network of informers

    These are not your father's pirates: Somali pirates benefit from information sent to them by informers planted in key shipping hubs around the world; this information includes vessels' cargo, layout, and route -- and is transmitted early enough to allow the pirates enough time to practice their assault based on the information they received

  • Stimulus packageInitial $50 million of stimulus package for airport security awarded

    DHS announced the award of the first $50 million out of a total of $1 billion made available by the stimulus package for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA); money will fund explosive detection systems and advanced technology X-ray units that will streamline baggage screening at U.S. airports

  • U.S. intelligence chief: Mexico not on brink of collapse

    There is a debate among different U.S. intelligent services about how close to a collapse Mexico is; Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, says the drug cartels' escalating violence is a product of their weakening state not their strength