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(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Mexico on Wednesday to meet Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other top officials. Below are some facts about the U.S.-Mexican relationship and the fight against illegal drugs and ...

SELEX Galileo won a $9.2 million contract from TKC Aerospace Inc. to upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with its Vixen 500E intercept radar and associated mission management system. The contract is for the first two ...

Effective Alternatives to Detention Could Save Up to $2,500 Per Person Per Month WASHINGTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tens of thousands of people languish in U.S. immigration detention facilities every year -- including a number of U.S. ...

U.S. President Barack Obama says his administration is sending hundreds of additional federal agents to the United States' border with Mexico, to help fight drug cartels and prevent violence from spilling over into this country. At a news conference, ...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Mexico on Wednesday to meet Mexican President Felipe Calderon and other top officials. Below are some facts about the U.S.-Mexican relationship and the fight against illegal drugs and ...

'President (Barack) Obama and his administration are focused on all aspects of the U.S. relationship with Mexico because it is vital to core U.S. national interests,' the White House said in a written summary of the strategy. 'The president is concerned ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexicans desperate for an end to drug gang murders, abductions and extortion saw a glimmer of hope on Tuesday as the United States vowed to tighten security on the increasingly violent border. U.S. officials announced a ...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced plans Tuesday for bolstering security along the country's southwest border in an effort to curb spillover from Mexico's deadly drug war. Betty Ann Bowser reports. BETTY ANN BOWSER: In response to an ...

The last major federal National Guard mission along the U.S.-Mexico border was Operation Jump Start. The two-year mission, from June 2006 to July 2008, dispatched as many as 6,000 National Guard members to Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas to ...

WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of federal agents, along with high-tech surveillance gear and drug-sniffing dogs, are headed to the U.S. Southwest to help Mexico fight drug cartels and keep violence from spilling across the Mexican border, Obama administration ...