U.S. Opens 1st Northern Border Air Patrol Station
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BELLINGHAM, Wash.  - The U.S. government is  stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with  Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor  illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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Stepped-up inspections at the Canadian and Mexican borders have led to lines nearly as long as they were after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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U.S. agents next week will start scanning trucks crossing the Mexico border with a device that shoots neutrons to detect what exactly is hidden in the cargo. By Ryan Singel.
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Chertoff to Boeing: 'You don't own this border' The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has accepted into service its first section of SBInet virtual border fence, but it clearly isn't very happy with the state of the new technology.â¦
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The U.S. government will launch a  test program to see if a wireless system like those used at  highway toll booths can be help speed up registering foreign  travelers at U.S. borders, officials said on Tuesday.
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Defense giant Boeing Co. BA.N has   won a $2.1 billion contract to help the Department of Homeland   Security beef up security along more than 7,500 miles of U.S.   borders with Mexico and Canada, The Washington Post reported.
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United Airlines on Thursday  launched the first daily flight service to Vietnam from the  United States since 1975.
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Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening system, the Homeland Security Department announced on Monday.
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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 Coast Guard is planning its first operating base in the Arctic as a way of dealing with ships that are already beginning to ply the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
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The United States has begun flying  up to 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to  Afghanistan to provide increased security for that country's  Oct. 9 presidential election, the military said on Wednesday.
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Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.
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The U.S. military's lone outpost in South America is a modest affair &#151; some 220 Americans share space with a local air force wing and an international airport. They are allowed no more than eight planes at a time.
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ALLENBY BRIDGE, West Bank  - The first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.
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By Tracy Harmon, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 8--FLORENCE - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office will be built at the Fremont County Airport Industrial Park.   Fremont County commissioners last Thursday approved the sale of eight acres of land for the project.
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This week, three U.S. border crossings -- one from Canada, at Port Huron, and two from Mexico, at Laredo, Tex., and Douglas, Ariz. -- launched a program run by the Department of Homeland Security to collect fingerprints and photos at U.S. borders.
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The Department of Homeland Security is seeking money and employees to secure U.S. borders under President Bush's budget, while hiking airline passenger fees, as a Senate panel endorsed a new leader for the agency.