President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.
The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, demonstrating Read more
It’s one of the safest parts of America, and it’s getting safer.
It’s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn’t so dangerous after all.
The top four big cities in America with the lowest rates of violent crime are all in border states: San Diego, Phoenix, El Paso and Austin, according to a new FBI report. Read more
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t | Report
(Photo: r3v || cls)
A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning “as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened” detention and deportation system of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, according to three civil rights organizations that have filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read more
The boys are bragging about their new technology! Check it out:
Bellingham (WA) among sites that will get anti-terror patrol planes
From the article from the AP, some of the rationale used to justify this military buildup:
“Someone who could fly a plane full of narcotics in could also fly a plane full of terrorists in, could also fly a plane full of explosive’ in,” Boyd said
And any plane carrying border patrol agents . . .
Check out Alex’s new page with links about lots of military activity here in Western Washington state including aerial surveillance, army helicopters and fighter jets over Port Angeles, and more information on the Olympic Security Coordination Center which “will coordinate the security efforts for over 40 federal, state and local agencies on the U.S. side of the U.S. – Canadian border.”
