Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Patrol Boat 230 The Border Patrol is again getting help from state authorities in inspecting pleasure boats on New York’s Lake Champlain on busy summer weekends. Lake Champlain straddles the New York, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
Former U.S. border agents killed in Afghanistan
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: federal_agencies_legislative Image Caption: Herat, Afghanistan Two former U.S. border agents and a British customs officer were killed, and another U.S. border agent wounded, in a July 22 attack by a lone gunman in Afghanistan as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
Security Council alarmed at Sudan-South Sudan border clashes which it says could reignite war
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council expressed deep alarm Tuesday at military clashes along the border between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan which it said are threatening to reignite their civil war. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National…
Border killing spurs India-Bangladesh civilian hacker war
When Indian border guards tortured a poor Bangladeshi cowherd who had crossed territorial lines in December, the government of Bangladesh registered the official protest it typically does in these incidents, which are not uncommon. But unusually, there was video footage of this incident, apparently taken by one of the guards,…
Kafkaesque ordeal: Innocent Canadian arrested at U.S. border
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – A city bus driver from Vancouver, B.C., who tried to enter the U.S. at the Blaine crossing was arrested and thrown into jail after border officials mistook him for an international fugitive with the same name. Several days later, the case against the bus driver was dismissed…
Is Cybersecurity as Important as Border Security?
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Giant weed said border security obstacle
LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 30 (UPI) — A giant invasive weed is threatening the ecosystem along southern U.S. rivers and could hamper security efforts on the U.S.-Mexico border, researchers say. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Ariz. lawmakers say they will build border fence
By Amanda Lee Myers and Jacques Billeaud Associated Press PHOENIX — Arizona is taking on immigration once again, with state lawmakers collecting donations from the public to put fencing along every inch of the state’s porous Mexican border in a first-of-its-kind effort. The idea came from state Sen. Steve Smith,…
Border wilderness enforcement debated in DC
Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — No one can recall the last time an illegal immigrant hiked into the rugged and remote wilderness of Glacier National Park in an attempt to slip into the U.S. But that isn’t stopping some in Congress from proposing to give border agents control over environmental…
Off duty Border Patrol agent enters guilty plea to purse theft charge
BISBEE â” A man who allegedly stole a purse in Douglas in early August while he was an off duty Border Patrol agent has entered into a plea deal in Cochise County Superior Court, according to court records. View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View…