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The Border Patrol also "encountered 530 aliens from special interest countries, which are countries the Department of State has determined to represent a potential terrorist threat to the United States." Additionally, there were over 3,500 drug seizures at southwest border checkpoints in 2008. [2]
Commander Joint Task Force FOUR (CJTF-4) in Key West, Commander, Joint Task Force FIVE in Alameda, California and Commander, Joint Task Force 6 in El Paso, Texas were established to direct the anti-drug surveillance efforts in the Atlantic/Caribbean, Pacific, and Mexico border areas respectively. The Joint Task Forces have been operating since ...
The United States border is a barely discernible line in the uninhabited deserts, canyons, or mountains and rivers. The Border Patrol utilizes a variety of equipment and methods, such as electronic sensors placed at strategic locations along the border, to detect people or vehicles entering the country illegally.
Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, Reuters obtained and analyzed a dataset of drug seizures by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at ports of entry along the U.S ...
The U.S. has spent millions on high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the border, but many sit in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them.
2006 map of the eight principal drug corridors in the United States. Inhabitants of the lower Midwest and South, including Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Carolinas, generally dub their locations to be part of the main trans-American drug corridor, as well as those of the Southwestern U.S. states such as Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. [3]
Fifty-six scanners that can detect fentanyl in cars at border crossings will be installed due to $200 million in federal funds approved after an NBC News report.
Tethered Aerostat Radar System in New Mexico. The first aerostats were assigned to the United States Air Force in December 1980 at Cudjoe Key, Florida.During the 1980s, the U.S. Customs Service operated a network of aerostats to help counter illegal drug trafficking.