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National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Wages Daily Battle Against Smugglers As new immigration legislation winds through the House and Senate this year -- and lawmakers debate the 2007 budget request for boosts in both technology funding and manpower -- the demand in the US for cheap labor and narcotics promises to continue unabated.
National Defense August 2007 Stew Magnuson	National Guard Plugs Gaps for Border Patrol in the Southwest The U.S. Border Patrol has asked the Guard members participating in Operation Jump Start to serve as their eyes and ears by manning spots along the road.
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Paul Magnusson	Whipsawed On The Border As illegal aliens pour in, the interests of business and ire of U.S. citizens are colliding.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Contentious Debate Over Border Fences Won't End Soon Dormant as a national issue until late 2005, securing the southern border suddenly became an intensely debated subject and a political hot potato.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Plans Under Way to Beef Up Porous Northern Border The northern border between the U.S. and Canada has its own set of issues in that the smuggling and drug trafficking is bi-directional. The administration intend to beef up security along this border.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Border Fence The Project 28 virtual border fence in Arizona cannot currently deliver live streaming video to Border Patrol agents
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Dangerous Water Crossings Expected to Rise While land-border crossings grab most of the media attention, almost forgotten by the public is the ocean route. But illegal immigrants chancing a water crossing can face deadly consequences.
Wired August 2003 Michael Mechanic	Beyond the Wall Infrared surveillance cams. Seismic field sensors. Real-time data maps. Welcome to the new US Border Patrol.
National Defense August 2013 Stew Magnuson	New Border Technology Programs Seek to Avoid Mistakes of the Past Before Congress took up legislation this year, Customs and Border Protection had already embarked on another effort to employ fixed-site sensors to help Border Patrol agents catch smugglers and illegal immigrants.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Electronic Fence The revelation that a highly touted component of the system does not work as promised came only days after the Obama administration announced that it is moving forward to expand the program to other areas along the southern border.
Reason February 2009 Alexander Zaitchik	Alien World How treacherous border crossing became a theme park.
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson	Sociologist's Book Documents DHS' Virtual Border Wall Failures Robert Lee Maril has written, "The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border," an investigation of Customs and Border Protection's controversial Secure Border Initiative program, and its efforts to construct a so-called "virtual" wall in Arizona.
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Tim Steller	A Thirst for Justice Since the late 1990s, hundreds of border crossers from Mexico have died from hypothermia and dehydration in American deserts. Reverend Robin Hoover of activist group Humane Borders explains how his group has helped prevent more deaths by the strategic placement of water tanks.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Department of Homeland Security uses Northrop Grumman UAV The Hunter UAV from Northrop Grumman, in helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security protect the U.S.-Mexican border, will use optoelectronic infrared sensors to scan the Arizona border area 90 miles southeast of Tucson.
National Defense December 2010 Eric Beidel	With SBInet In Limbo, Border Technology Is Anyone's Game The Department of Homeland Security's program to deploy a network of cutting-edge cameras, sensors and communication technologies along the southwest border has hit its share of snags and more recently a wall.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Northern Border Camera System to Avoid Past Pitfalls The Border Patrol will be begin work this year to install a series of cameras north of Detroit with one motto in mind: keep it simple.
National Defense July 2006 Harold Kennedy	Spending Climbs Into Billions, But Skepticism Grows Fueled by worries about terrorism, illegal immigration and drug smuggling, U.S. spending for border security is skyrocketing, but critics complain that much of the money is being wasted.
BusinessWeek July 4, 2005 Paul Magnusson	Go Back To Where You Came From Across the country, a grassroots backlash against illegal immigrants is building.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	CBP Initiates Second Phase of New Surveillance System Customs and Border Protection is making a second attempt at deploying a high-tech camera system south of Tucson, Ariz. that is designed to help Border Patrol agents interdict illegal migrants and drug smugglers.
National Defense August 2007 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Still Looking For the Ultimate Tough Truck If a manufacturer has built an off-road truck tough enough to withstand the punishment the Border Patrol inflicts on its vehicles, the agency would like to see it.
National Defense January 2013 Stew Magnuson	Bill Coming Due for Last Decade's Border Buildup Congressional mandates of the 2000s designed to bolster the Southwest border are coming back to impact the federal budget in a negative way, said a former Customs and Border Protection commissioner.
National Defense May 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	DHS Struggles to Find Effective Measures for Border Security Since 2010, the Department of Homeland Security has been working on its Border Condition Index. The index -- which is meant to evaluate the state of border security -- will examine data and trends, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
National Defense April 2009 Rusling et al.	Border Patrol Meets Hiring Goals, Looks to Add More Officers U.S. Customs and Border Protection now employs more than 18,000 border personnel, and aims to increase the number to 20,000 by September.
National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol to Stand Pat When it Comes to New Technologies The dream that a virtual fence on the U.S. southern border would spot every illegal migrant and drug smuggler appears to be officially dead.
Reason September 2006	Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever Bush's Border Bravado... Worse Than a Wall... A Legacy of the Unforeseen... Open the Borders... Exploitation or Expulsion... etc.
National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson	Military Technology Considered For U.S. Border Surveillance Raven unmanned aerial vehicles, blimps with cameras that could peer into Mexico and electro-optical cameras are among the items that could be used on the border.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Geri Smith	A Border Transformed Since 9/11, officials at the Laredo crossing have had two conflicting goals: Stop terrorists and keep trade flowing.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Troops Use Frontier for Real-World Training The U.S. Army's Joint Task Force North had its origins in the beginning of the so-called war on drugs in the late 1980s. Its goal is to support law enforcement agencies to deter transnational threats to the homeland.
National Defense July 2014 Stew Magnuson	South Texas in Line for Border Patrol Technology The southwest border in Texas will start to receive some of the new sensor technologies that have heretofore been deployed solely in Arizona.
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo	U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced.
National Defense December 2010 Karen L. Jones	A Single Recipe For Boosting the Economy, Fixing the Border and Making Clean Energy Setting up a renewable energy corridor near the Imperial County/Mexico border also offers important practical advantages
National Defense August 2007 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Receives Unexpected Technology Boost Hundreds of obsolete Javelin missile weapon sights collecting dust in a warehouse have been given new life with the U.S. Border Patrol.
National Defense July 2006 Stew Magnuson	Hunters Unearth Smuggling Tunnels Authorities along the border with Mexico have uncovered the longest underground smuggling passageway discovered by law enforcement so far. Training and technology used to hunt tunnels along the Mexican and Canadian borders has immediate applications in Southwest Asia.
Inc. March 2007 Kevin Boyle	The Root Causes of Immigration As employers draw greater scrutiny for hiring undocumented workers, a way out of the current crisis may come from, of all places, Ireland.
BusinessWeek April 29, 2010 Peter Coy	The Wailing Wall Illegal immigration - Arizona's agony - is a national failure. The business case for fixing the problem.
National Defense July 2008 Stew Magnuson	Cost of New Border Fencing Could Reach $47 Billion A series of cameras and sensors linked to Border Patrol vehicles and a command and control center south of Tucson, Ariz., was meant to serve as a test bed for a so-called virtual fence.
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons	Predators Allow Border Agencies to Reallocate Resources Monitoring and policing 7,000 miles of border shared by the United States and its northern and southern neighbors has always been a tall order for Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol.
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol Chief Wary of Technology Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher said he casts a wary eye on one-size-fits-all technical solutions that are designed to help agents keep tabs on the lands that separate the United States from Canada and Mexico.
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson	Customs and Border Protection Revamps Acquisition Strategy The man charged with putting Customs and Border Protection's house in order when it comes to its technology acquisition programs said simply transferring Defense Department practices over to the Department of Homeland Security doesn't always work.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.
Reason March 2003 Cathy Young	Guilty by Association Note to conservatives: Most immigrants aren't terrorists
National Defense June 2014 Stew Magnuson	Border Technology Vendors Face Stringent Acquisition Regime After years of preparation, CBP's acquisition department awarded in March a contract to Elbit Systems of America to build a third generation of fixed towers designed to monitor the border.
Reason February 2009 Radley Balko	Checkpoint Diego Should the courts uphold suspicionless and increasingly invasive border searches under a vague national security exception, most Americans could essentially forfeit their Fourth Amendment rights in exchange for the privilege of driving.
Reason November 2004 Hanah Metchis	Judge, Jury, and Cop A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, which runs the Border Patrol, says deportation procedures that could take up to 12 months in the past can be processed in just a few days under a new policy.
National Defense March 2011 Stew Magnuson	Despite Virtual Border Fence's Demise, DHS Spending Big on New Sensor Systems DHS has not soured on technology to monitor the borders, though. Plans call for more than $800 million to be spent in the near term on sensor systems and unmanned aircraft.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Probably No Big, Fat Contracts for Next-Generation of Border Technology Customs and Border Protection is gearing up to begin its third attempt to deploy technology on the Southwest border.
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Brian Grow	Embracing Illegals Companies are getting hooked on the buying power of 11 million undocumented immigrants. The economic impact of illegals is significant, but the political implications are less clear-cut.
National Defense April 2006 Stew Magnuson	Drones Patrolling the Border The Border Patrol will fly a second unmanned aerial vehicle over the Arizona desert beginning this June. The first Predator B flight assisted in nabbing more than 1,000 illegal immigrants and 400 pounds of narcotics.
National Defense March 2015 Stew Magnuson	DHS Budget Request Has Little for Maligned Border Drone Program A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report slammed Customs and Border Protection's use of its unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, saying it was underused, very costly and that there was little evidence to support its effectiveness.
Outside September 2004 Ben Ryder Howe	An Impossible Place To Be Panama's mythic Darien Gap--a 10,000-square-mile swath of jungle on the border of Central and South America--has swallowed explorers for centuries. Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.