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U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Agents began using the virtual fence last December, and the towers have resulted in more than 3,000 apprehensions since, said Greg Giddens, executive director of the SBI program office in Washington. But that's just a fraction of the several hundred il.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 28, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 14, 2007 @ 3:53pm neoform

CNN -- A Canadian firetruck responding with lights and sirens to a weekend fire in Rouses Point, New York, was stopped at the U.S. border for about eight minutes, U.S. border officials said Tuesday. Fire officials battling the blaze called for help from fire.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

USA Today -- Mexico called on the United States to alter a plan to expand border fences designed to stem illegal immigration, saying the barriers would threaten migratory species accustomed to roaming freely across the frontier. Ways of minimizing environmental dam.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

CNN -- Step through the front door of the Haskell Library and you're in the United States. Walk across the carpeted floor to the circulation desk and you're in Canada. But if you sit down on the couch, you're back in the U.S. The 106-year-old Romanesque bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A massive spring storm plowed toward the Midwest early Wednesday after dumping more than a foot of snow on the Colorado foothills and spawning a tornado that killed nine people along the Texas-Mexico border. Six of the victims were killed a few miles s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 9:03pm neoform

SF Gate -- There was a time not long ago when a trip across the border from the United States to Canada was accomplished with a wink and a wave of a driver's license. Those days are over. Take the case of 55-year-old Lake Tahoe resident Greg Felsch. Stopped at th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:54am neoform

Yahoo News -- A former U.S. border agent who allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to cross from Mexico in return for $120,000 in cash was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison. Get the gifts you really wanted Michael Gilliland, 44, who worked on th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Three illegal immigrants were shot dead and two more were wounded after falling prey to suspected bandits as they crossed into the United States from Mexico, police said. Sergeant James Ogden of Pima County Sheriff's Department said the bodies of three.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

Canada.com -- A Canadian man was rescued from the Niagara River after trying to cross into the United States in the middle of the night in a rubber raft, telling U.S. authorities it was all so he could pay a credit card bill in person... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 31, 2007 @ 10:24am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Seven of the largest tunnels discovered under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years have yet to be filled in, authorities said, raising concerns because smugglers have tried to reuse such passages before... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 10, 2007 @ 10:05am mrmdc

SF Gate -- The cost of building and maintaining a double set of steel fences along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border could be five to 25 times greater than congressional leaders forecast last year, or as much as $49 billion over the expected 25-year life span of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Dec 16, 2006 @ 2:31am neoform

NPR -- A fence-building company in Southern California agrees to pay nearly $5 million in fines for hiring illegal immigrants. Two executives from the company may also serve jail time. The Golden State Fence Company's work includes some of the border fence betw.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 6, 2006 @ 11:05am mrmdc

Ars Technica -- US Customs and Border Protection issued a notice in the Federal Register yesterday which detailed the agency's massive database that keeps risk assessments on every traveler entering or leaving the country. Citizens who are concerned that their informati.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 8:15am neoform

CNET -- A lot of business travelers are walking around with laptops that contain private corporate information that their employers really do not want outsiders to see... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 8:18am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Bribery of federal and local officials by Mexican smugglers is rising sharply, and with it the fear that a culture of corruption is taking hold along the 2,000-mile border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- A 28-mile “virtual fence” that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday was to announce approval of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Presidential candidates talk big about security to the south, but so far electronic surveillance costing millions is doing little to keep illegals out It's a scene replayed often along the southwestern border of the U.S. Helicopter-borne Border Patrol.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 1:01pm neoform

USA Today -- The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing yesterday on revelations in a GAO report that says investigators were able to sneak across the northern border with bags that could have contained radioactive or other dangerous materials. Ronald Colburn, the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 17, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

USA Today -- The battered ribbon of carbon-steel and wire-mesh fencing has divided much of this city from Mexico for more than a decade. It helped inspire the Bush administration's plans for more than 700 miles of new fencing along the porous, 2,100-mile southwestern.. Read More