Border monitoring / protection

Five people rescued from sewage-filled cross-border tunnel
Border Patrol agents and firefighters rescue five people trapped in a sewage-filled trans-border tunnel near Chula Vista, California
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Border fence proposal draws sharp criticism in Idaho
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
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Debating immigration: Alabama's new law, Obama's strategy
In the first of a new ongoing Point-Counterpoint Debate series, Homeland Security NewsWire’s executive editor Eugene K. Chow interviewed Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center at the American Immigration Council, and Ira Mehlman, the media director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform; the two weighed in on President Obama’s current immigration strategy, the effect of Alabama’s tough new immigration law, and what lawmakers can do to curb illegal immigration
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Border security market booming
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
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Lawmakers seek to block weapons, cash heading to Mexico
DHS could soon be doubling the amount of resources it devotes to inspecting southbound shipments at U.S.— Mexico border crossings
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Sector Report for Thursday, 20 October 2011: Border / Immigration control
This report contains the following stories.
* Underage cartel recruits increasingly prosecuted by local courts

* ICE deports record 400,000 immigrants

* Federal court blocks portions of Alabama immigration law

* Also noted
Plus 1 additional story.
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Underage cartel recruits increasingly prosecuted by local courts
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
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ICE deports record 400,000 immigrants
This week federal immigration officials announced that it had deported nearly 400,000 people in the last fiscal year, the largest number of deportations in history
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Federal court blocks portions of Alabama immigration law
Last week a federal judge blocked enforcement of several provisions of a controversial Alabama immigration law
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Iran’s assassination plot highlights cartel-terrorism links | Agents seize 50,000 rounds of ammo at border | New Mexico wants more open border | DC refuses to enforce immigration | Sexual abuse of detained immigrants “widespread”
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Also noted
Weapons, munitions stolen from LAPD SWAT-training site | Most illegal immigrants deported last year were criminals | Bangkok floods could lead to price rises on global rice market | U.S. says Haqqani as most lethal foe | U.S. wrong on Anonymous and critical infrastructure | The False Economies of the Info Security World | Pentagon lawyer warns of militarized approach to fighting terrorism
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Facebook helps foil arms-smuggling deal
With the help of Facebook, federal investigators were able to arrest a man on charges of illegally shipping weapons parts internationally after he “friended” his weapons buyer
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Mexican cartels tunnel under Arizona parking lot
On International Street in Nogales, Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border, smugglers tunneled under the fence and neatly cut out rectangles below the pavement of parking spaces; using false-bottomed vehicles parked above the holes, smugglers would wait as individuals loaded the vehicle from below
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Sector Report for Thursday, 6 October 2011: Border / Immigration control
This report contains the following stories.
* U.S. immigrant population at record 40 Million in 2010

* Alabama: students do not need birth certificates to attend school

* U.S.-Canada reach border agreement

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Plus 1 additional story.
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Mexico now dominated by two powerful cartels
Five years and more than 35,000 deaths into Mexico’s bloody drug war, two cartels have emerged as the dominant force in narcotics and the two are poised to slug it out in a dangerous battle for control; the Mexican governmen’s crackdown on the drug cartels has left many gangs splintered and operationally less effective without their leaders; in the ensuing power vacuum, the Zetas and Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel have stepped up as the two leading gangs
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