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May 17, 2018 at 4:47 pm

The TSA is keeping a secret watch list of unruly travelers

The directive said actions that pose physical danger to security screeners — or other contact that the agency described as “offensive and without legal justification”...

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SEATTLE, WA – OCTOBER 19: Boeing 737 airplanes sit on the flight linge at Boeing on October 19, 2015 in Seattle, Washington. Boeing celebrated the grand opening of its new 737 delivery center to better accommodate the increased 737 production rates. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

April 25, 2018 at 4:35 pm

Federal air-marshal program in crisis: ‘Just security theater’

Marshals view their jobs as critical to protecting planes and airports from terrorists. But many describe a program in crisis.

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FILE– President Donald Trump views border wall prototypes in the border neighborhood of Otay Mesa near San Diego, March 13, 2018. Trump has called for a wall along the border with Mexico to stop undocumented immigrants and drugs from entering the U.S. But Border Patrol agents on the front lines say they need more technology and additional personnel to curb the illegal traffic, according to a report released on Thursday by Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

March 22, 2018 at 5:10 pm

Border agents say what they need is more technology and personnel

Customs and Border Protection officials called the report inaccurate, saying it confused how border agents’ feedback about security vulnerabilities is used to develop programs to...

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December 2, 2017 at 3:10 pm

Heroin in soups and lollipops: How drug cartels evade border security

Law-enforcement officials said members of Guatemala’s Ipala Cartel shipped large amounts of heroin into the United States, hiding drugs in food, primarily sugar wafers, brownies,...

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The U.S. Coast Guard cutters Stratton, left, and Munro, docked at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., June 7, 2017. Halting drugs is becoming increasingly difficult for the Coast Guard, which has operated with flat budgets even as its mission has expanded. President Donald Trumpâ€™s new budget would cut Coast Guard funding by 2.4 percent. (Andrew Burton/The New York Times)

July 4, 2017 at 3:36 pm

Coast Guard faces widening mission and shrinking budget

The Coast Guard is struggling to keep pace, seizing about 20 percent of all the drugs that come into the United States through a coastal...

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May 12, 2017 at 12:00 am

Trump’s wall faces a barrier in Texas: landowner lawsuits

More than 90 lawsuits involving landowners opposing the federal seizure of their property in South Texas remain open from 2008. Their resistance have the support...

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December 28, 2016 at 7:21 pm

Homeland Security agents took $15M in bribes, closed their eyes

Court records and internal agency documents showed that over the last 10 years almost 200 employees and contract workers of the Department of Homeland Security...

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August 16, 2016 at 7:20 pm

Trump wants to get rid of visa program he used

A controversial element of the program is questioned not only by Americans facing competition from foreign models but by technology companies whose engineering and scientific...

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July 24, 2016 at 9:18 pm

U.S. pushes to extend border security to foreign airports

Under a smaller program in place, called Preclearance and run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, officers are based at foreign airports where they collect...

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May 31, 2016 at 5:09 pm

TSA trains dogs to stay one sniff ahead of bombmakers VIEW

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the federal government has spent billions on technologies to emulate the ability of a trained bomb dog to...

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