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Mexico’s Drug War Next Door As Mexico’s war with its drug cartels escalates, CBP’s Border Patrol responds

According to published reports, Mexican drug cartels clear some $30 billion a year on marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine moved over the border into the United States – more than …

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Illegal Re-entry Cases Skyrocket But what does it mean?

A new report (http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/251/), compiled from Department of Justice data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, reveals a trend that may surprise both critics and supporters …

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ICE Secure Communities

Secure Communities: Course Corrections Despite its best intentions, ICE’s Secure Communities program remains controversial. Part Three of a three part series.

On June 17, 2011, in response to growing criticism and confusion over his agency’s Secure Communities program, ICE Director John Morton announced a number of changes to the program. Generally, …

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Secure Communities: The Concerns Despite its best intentions, ICE’s Secure Communities program remains controversial. Part Two of a three part series.

The aim of ICE’s Secure Communities program is simple: to activate local law enforcement officers as force multipliers for federal immigration enforcement, helping to remove illegal immigrants who are also …

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A criminal alien is arrested by ICE personnel during enforcement operations that led to the arrest of more than 2,400 convicted criminal aliens, fugitives throughout all 50 states. ICE photo

Secure Communities: Mandatory or Voluntary? Despite its best intentions, ICE’s Secure Communities program remains controversial. Part One of a three part series.

In early June 2011, when Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced his state would no longer participate in Secure Communities, a deportation program established in 2008 by U.S. Immigration and Customs …

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So What Did We Learn? Lessons from Rep. Peter King’s Muslim radicalization hearing

Well, the Congressional hearing that everyone has been talking about for literally the past three months is over. Going just over four hours long, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. …

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Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) keep watch over the crew of a suspected pirate dhow as fellow teammates conduct a search for weapons and other gear. The boarding was conducted as part of counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden in 2009. Chosin was then the flagship for Combined Joint Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct counter-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Scott Taylor

The Quest Tragedy and a Strategic Response to Piracy

With the sad news of the murder of four Americans by Somali pirates off the coast of Africa, the United States and the international community once again have to realize …

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The crew of a semi-submersible drug trafficking vessel prepares to abandon their boat before being intercepted and detained by the Coast Guard approximately 150 miles northwest of the Colombian-Ecuador border Jan. 8, 2009. A dozen suspected drug smugglers were apprehended in the Eastern Pacific Ocean following the interception of three semi-submersible vessels within nine days.  U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Twilight of the Semi-submersible? As the first cases under a new anti-trafficking law reach U.S. courts, Latin American drug-runners double down on stealth submersibles

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It began with better radar: Until the 1990s, the preferred method for drug smugglers in the Transit Zone – a 42-million-square-mile area comprising the maritime approaches to the United States …

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The crew of a semi-submersible drug-trafficking vessel attempt to abandon their boat before being intercepted and detained by the Coast Guard approximately 150 miles northwest of the Colombian/Ecuador border Jan.8, 2009.

What the Semi-submersibles Mean Transnational Gangs, Drugs, and Terrorism

Since the days of the United States’ Revolutionary War and Connecticut patriot David Bushnell’s Turtle, the idea of a vessel operating just under the surface of the water to launch …

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An air-to-air left side view of a Marine Corps F-5 Tiger II aircraft, foreground, and a Navy F-14 Tomcat aircraft. Both F-5 and F-14 aircraft were sold to the government of the Shah of Iran before he was deposed. ICE has thwarted attempts to export F-5 and F-14 components to Iran, and even the attempt to send an entire decommissioned F-14 to the country. DoD photo by Lt. Baranek, USN.

Shield America

A lot of everyday products appear rather innocuous to the typical American user. From computers with advanced microprocessors to cell phones and other communication technology, such technologies are taken for …

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