Sector Report for Thursday, 1 December 2011: Border / Immigration control | Homeland Security Newswire

Human smugglingCoyotes using GPS and smartphones to smuggle immigrants, avoid capture
Human smugglers, or coyotes, have increasingly taken advantage of GPS equipped smartphones to sneak illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border; using the GPS capabilities of smartphones, coyotes stand at elevated points to carefully guide groups of illegal immigrants
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Cross-border truckingLawmakers question DHS on lack of regulations for Mexican truck program
The cross-border trucking pilot program with Mexico is entering its sixth week and DHS has yet to issue official enforcement guidelines to law enforcement agencies
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Border security metricsCBP to unveil new metrics for border security
Next February Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will release a new set of metrics to determine safety along the U.S.-Mexico border; according to a recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, CBP will no longer measure border security in terms of “operational control”
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Also noted
“Most sophisticated” drug tunnel discovered in San Diego | Understaffed ports of entry hurting economy |
KDH lands $47 million CBP contract | Mafia committed immigration fraud to bring in strippers | House eases restrictions on highly skilled immigrants
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