Program to help trucking companies cross Mexican border attracts drug smugglers A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American ...
Roadside bomb kills 5 Afghan border security guards in country's south A roadside bomb killed five Afghan border security guards traveling on a ...
Gaps in import safety controls identified called 'troubling' Many agencies share responsibility for ensuring the safety of the increasing volume of imported food, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), and Homeland Security's ...
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States has severely restricted access to a spot on the Mexican border where families and lovers divided by illegal immigration could unite briefly to hold hands or kiss through a fence. In a move to stop ...
DHS Sec'y Napolitano: Border more secure, but immigration reform needed for better enforcement The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, ...
Border advocacy group says $6 billion, 5,000 inspectors needed to bolster land port security The country's understaffed land ports of entry need massive investments in infrastructure, technology and personnel to avoid becoming the path of choice for human and drug smugglers, according ...
EIGHT OF TWENTY FILE - East German border policemen, right, refuse to shake hands with a Berliner who stretches out his hand over the border fence at the eastern site nearby Checkpoint Charlie border crossing point, in this Nov. 10, 1989 file ...
An official says a swine flu victim has died in Slovakia, becoming the nation's first known fatality from the illness. Health Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Cizmarikova says the 48-year-woman died Friday in Bratislava's university clinic. The woman also had several other serious health ...
In this undated photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a 1965 Volkswagen van that was stolen 35 years ago from Spokane, Wash., is shown after it was recovered on Oct. 19, 2009, from a shipping container at the Port of ...
Federal authorities say seizures of guns, cash increase sharply at U.S.-Mexican border U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband. ...
Internal gov't review: Millions spent on small border crossings is practical and thoughtful An internal review of the Obama administration's own plan to spend tens of millions of dollars upgrading little-used border checkpoints ahead of busier ones justified its choices, but a ...
Custom-built ramps and ultralights: Drug smugglers show unbounded creativity on Mexican border A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming ...
