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Panel: Info-sharing key to counternarcotics efforts along border in Arizona
In counternarcotics efforts along the southwestern border in Arizona, successful information sharing hinges on a personal commitment from leaders, said Matthew Allen, Immigration and Customs...
Arizona immigration law may be upheld by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court may uphold at least parts of a controversial Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, if April 25 oral argument is an indicator of how justices will rule.
CBP moves forward with border tower procurement even as S&T says sensors need research
Customs and Border Protection says existing technology is sufficiently advanced for it to mount a new attempt to deploy a tower-based anti-border crossing network of sensors along Arizona's southern
DHS halts Secure Communities expansion in Alabama
The Homeland Security Department halted expansion in December of the Secure Communities program in Alabama partly due to federal litigation against a tough anti-illegal immigration state law, said
DOJ confronts Arpaio and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona has a "chronic culture of disregard for basic legal and constitutional obligations," according to a Dec. 15 Justice Department report (.pdf) that
Supreme Court to review Arizona immigration law
The Supreme Court agreed Dec. 12 to hear a challenge by the state of Arizona against a lower court's decision to overturn most of its controversial immigration law, known as SB 1070. In an order
Amid concerns over illegal border crossers, wildland fires sap law enforcement resources
Federal land management agencies dispatch law enforcement support to most wildland fires in the Arizona border region because of concerns about firefighter safety amid illegal border crossers, but
CBP cost estimate for Arizona Border Surveillance Technology uncertain, says GAO
Customs and Border Protection may be duplicating the similar cost-estimating errors in a $1.5 billion effort to deploy technology along the southern Arizona border as it did in SBInet, the now-
Known gang membership grows by 40 percent since 2009
Gang membership in the United States and Puerto Rico has increased by an estimated 40 percent since 2009, says an annual national gang threat assessment released Oct. 21 by the National Gang
Border Patrol Ajo Station expansion under environmental criticism
A Border Patrol proposal to expand a southern Arizona forward operating base located at the western boundary of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has come under criticism by an environmental
