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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. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The detention of hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year in the United States represents a violation of human rights, Amnesty International USA said in a report on Wednesday. On an average day, the rights group said, more ...

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 ...

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, ...

THE Obama administration announced plans for tighter security along the Mexican border as it voiced fears that violence from a growing drugs war would spill over into the US. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tonight begins a 48-hour visit to Mexico, ...

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 - President Obama will send at least 450 more federal agents, drug-sniffing dogs, X-ray scanners, intelligence analysts, and other law enforcement resources to the US-Mexico border in what administration officials yesterday called a ...

MEXICO CITY In the first days of the Obama administration, U.S. officials have publicly questioned Mexico's ability to maintain control of its territory from drug traffickers and have scrapped a high-profile commitment promised under the North American ...

'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 ...

WASHINGTON - President Obama will send at least 450 more federal agents, drug-sniffing dogs, X-ray scanners, intelligence analysts, and other law enforcement resources to the US-Mexico border in what administration officials yesterday called 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 ...

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 ...

An epidemic of drug-related violence that has claimed thousands of lives in northern Mexico and begun to spill over into U.S. border cities has once again thrust Mexico into the first tier of President Barack Obama's security concerns. The administration ...

(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 ...

The United States government has announced it will step up security measures along the border with Mexico in an effort to stem the violence committed by drug cartels that have spilled over into southwestern states. As part of the plan an increase of ...

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 ...

President Barack Obama yesterday announced extra agents for the southern US border and vowed to staunch narcotics demand as officials pledged full support for Mexico??s battle against drug cartels. The White House vowed to stand ??shoulder to ...

* Plan boosts border agents, inspections * U.S. still considers proposal to send troops to border * Hillary Clinton to visit Mexico on Wednesday * Critics say it falls short on immigration enforcement (Adds Obama comments in paragraphs 7 and 22) ...

The Obama administration announced plans yesterday to move more than 450 law enforcement agents and equipment to the southern U.S. border to combat Mexican drug cartel violence, but its 'comprehensive response' was also notable for what it omitted. ...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration says it is sending more agents and equipment to the southwestern U.S. border to combat Mexican drug cartels. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden are at the White ...