U.S. Border Officers Say More Security Needed-Study
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More than 60 percent of U.S. Border  Patrol agents and immigration officers said the Department of  Homeland Security could do more to stop potential terrorists  from entering the United States, a new study said.
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Bridges to Mexico in this traffic-choked city began testing a new immigration security program Monday that requires some U.S. visitors to be fingerprinted and photographed as they cross the border.
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Technical and management troubles have caused the government's effort to secure a portion of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border with a chain of surveillance towers to fall behind schedule, jeopardizing the success of a costly project meant to showcase the Bush administration's tougher stance on...
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The new head of Mexico's federal police force said Monday he doesn't see the U.S.-Mexico border as a terror target and that while terrorists may try to use this country to sneak into America, there's no evidence they have yet done so.
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The US Department of Homeland Security unveiled new computer workstations Thursday that allow Border Patrol agents on the Canadian and Mexican borders to tap into the FBI&#39;s fingerprint database, overcoming a technological hurdle that
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TUCSON, Arizona  - A drive to recruit thousands more Border Patrol agents may flood the service with inexperienced officers and lead to increased corruption, officials said on Monday.
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Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border is forcing migrants to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.
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U.S. officials want to see if the same technology that speeds cars through highway tolls and identifies lost pets can unclog border crossings without compromising security.
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The United States asked Mexico on   Thursday to send federal security forces back to the border   city of Nuevo Laredo, which is still struggling with drug   violence despite a security crackdown last year.
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Sluggish pace of development and deployment has left big holes in checkpoint security, officials say.
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Resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about feasibility, potential effectiveness.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico  - The number of illegal  immigrants detained on the U.S.-Mexico border jumped in late  2004 as the U.S. government tightened security, although some  border agents said it only signaled that more people were  crossing the frontier.
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Visitors could face digital fingerprinting at airports under plans to beef up border security
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LAREDO, Texas  - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
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The urgent need to reinforce border controls to prevent thousands of illegal immigrants from entering the European Union will be at the top of the agenda when EU justice and interior ministers meet in Brussels on Tuesday. The ministers are expected to agree on measures to strengthen border controls in a bid to reduce the number of illegal entries to the bloc each year, but the question of funding will be paramount to any decisions taken.