{"id":524575,"date":"2010-04-12T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81941"},"modified":"2010-04-12T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:47:47","slug":"immigration-reform-technological-solutions-among-suggestions-for-improving-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/524575","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Reform, Technological Solutions Among Suggestions for Improving Border Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comprehensive immigration reform, new technology, stronger oversight and collaboration with Mexico are among the proposals the Center for American Progress suggests for improving security along the U.S. border, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2010\/04\/pdf\/dww_borders.pdf\" >report<\/a> released today.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of CAP&#8217;s ten reform proposals for the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Secure Border Initiative (SBI), a program aimed at reducing illegal immigration and major drug trafficking operations, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border:<span id=\"more-81941\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. Congress should address border security through comprehensive immigration reform legislation.<br \/>\n2. Continue to pursue technological solutions.<br \/>\n3. Reach out to local communities (&#8220;Border towns need to be brought into the discussion&#8221;).<br \/>\n4. Collaborate with Mexico on border security.<br \/>\n5. Draw on the expertise of academia and industry to shape a long-term border security blueprint.<br \/>\n6. The federal government should maintain tight control over the performance of con- tractors and agencies, while setting schedules with the understanding that they may need to be adjusted.<br \/>\n7. Allow a wider variety of businesses, including small technology companies and unsuccessful SBI bidders, to join in solving border security problems.<br \/>\n8. Improve inter-agency communications and planning and maintain flexibility in technology design.<br \/>\n9. The federal government should consider a more \u201chorizontal\u201d approach in which a single type of technology is implemented over a broad area.<br \/>\n10. Improve the viability and performance of border technology programs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a CAP conference call today, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), chairman of the House subcommittee on border, maritime and global counter-terrorism, echoed the report&#8217;s suggestions, saying collaboration with Mexico is essential and aid to the Mexican government for controlling cartel violence needs to be expedited.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CAP report, SBI is flawed because of a border fence that is too heavily relied on for border security; management and oversight issues; a Department of Homeland Security that is too slow to address mistakes; and misguided spending decisions (namely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/16\/AR2010031603573.html\" >SBInet<\/a>, a technology-heavy program designed to help Border Patrol detect illegal immigrants and smugglers along the border).<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar said border security should, among other  things, involve detention for immigrants as  a deterrent for future  illegal immigration &#8212; something that he said has worked in his district. He also said there should  be more funding for the  use of drones as a monitoring tool along the  border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comprehensive immigration reform, new technology, stronger oversight and collaboration with Mexico are among the proposals the Center for American Progress suggests for improving security along the U.S. border, according to a report released today. 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