Tag: Border Security
Borderline
May 14, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week in Monitoring Matters, we look at all the money flowing through the border, namely out of our pockets and toward the border.
That’s right, President Trump’s recently released discretionary budget has no room for science, art, or education, but a blank check for so called border security enforcement. Towards which end the administration has called for 20,000 new ICE agents who, according to current events, don’t answer to the courts.
To say the situation...
Border Security among topics at SIA Government Summit
March 11, 2014SSN Staff
WASHINGTON—The 2014 SIA Government Summit, hosted by the Security Industry Association, will examine some of the border security and immigration projects being developed in conjunction with homeland security initiatives, according to a news release from SIA.
The summit, held June 3-4 at the W Hotel in Washington, D.C., will feature experts from the public and private sectors who will examine several topics pertinent to border security.
Panels will deal with security programs with state...
SIA: Biometric ID cards 'sound policy' for immigration
June 12, 2013Rich Miller
WASHINGTON—With immigration reform gaining momentum in Congress, the Security Industry Association is calling on lawmakers to approve biometrics on identity cards to ensure the highest level of security at U.S. entry points.
A hearing on S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, was scheduled this week in the Senate. If the bill passes it would then go to the House, where the debate over immigration reform has been more fractious.
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