The recent Department of Justice study of the impacts of illegal drugs upon our country, the National Drug Threat Assessment 2011 (NDTA2011), outlines significant challenges facing Customs and Border Patrol (CBP); a first step to directly addressing the NDTA2011 is to refrain from sending out a new batch of RFPs (request for proposal) to the usual defense contractors

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has opened the first pedestrian border crossing in El Paso, Texas, that deploys a combination of gate systems, mobile handheld devices, and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology more efficiently to identify and process pedestrians crossing the border into the United States

Internal DHS documents reveal local law enforcement agencies are not required to hold undocumented immigrants when requested by the federal government; a coalition of groups against the controversial Secure Communities program obtained a total of three documents under a Freedom of Information request that clarified the policy of detainers for local law enforcement agencies

CBP makes arrests in AZ, releases through CA and TX * Perry claims he will secure the border in a year * Illegal border crosser promises to be back * Texas AG warns Obama cartel wars crossing border * Mexico urges migrants to come home

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) hopes to open a new border crossing point in a remote portion of Texas by next year; the agency hopes to create a border checkpoint in Boquillas, Texas in Big Bend National Park. The crossing point would be designated as a Class B port of entry — the first of its kind in the entire history of the agency

A recently proposed plan to build fences along a 4,000-mile stretch of the U.S.-Canada border has caused quite a stir among residents of Idaho; last month U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials held a meeting in Naples, Idaho to discuss several strategies for border enforcement and open its proposals for public comment

The border security market will reach a value of $17 billion in 2011, as governments around the world continue to invest in a range of border security products

In the past when Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would catch teenagers smuggling narcotics, the agency would hand the case over to federal prosecutors, but Border Patrol has entered into a new arrangement with local prosecutors and the U.S. Attorney General’s office to send cases directly to local courts for prosecution

Last week a federal judge blocked enforcement of several provisions of a controversial Alabama immigration law