Border Protection News
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Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, a suburban Chicago teenager arrested last month as he was about to board a flight for Turkey, was indicted for trying to join an al-Qaeda ally in Syria.
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Delays at U.S.-Mexico border crossings cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in 2011, as improvements have lagged behind traffic growth and the political focus has been on securing the rest of the border.
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A skirmish between the FBI and the Boston police erupted into public view after the bureau sought to rebut a claim that police weren’t aware of a federal probe of the alleged mastermind of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Senators in both parties questioned the effectiveness of U.S. border-security efforts as lawmakers begin debating a measure to revise immigration laws and create a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to heed their countries’ “very significant common interests” in Syria and redouble efforts to end the war that’s destabilizing the Middle East.
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President Barack Obama said “we want to leave no stone unturned” in a review to determine whether warning signs were missed by U.S. authorities before the Boston bombings.
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U.S. lawmakers are examining whether the Homeland Security Department failed to alert the FBI last year when one of the Boston bombing suspects boarded a plane for Russia.
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President Barack Obama began experiencing first-hand the effects of across-the-board federal spending cuts as the first wave of White House furloughs kicked in yesterday.
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Alejandro Vega hiked five days through the Arizona desert and then toiled 10 years busing restaurant tables, building roads and cleaning manure out of horse corrals in the U.S. before his deportation in 2009.
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A pedestrian who strolls through Boston’s Financial District, an area of about 40 city blocks, can be seen by at least 233 private and public cameras.
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