It was the day after Thanksgiving — Friday, Nov. 29, 2002 — and things were slow at the FBI’s Pittsburgh office. So slow, in fact, that an eager gumshoe, let’s call him “Agent Dwight,” seeking to score brownie points, asked his boss for an assignment. The supervisor, let’s call him “Agent Michael,” carelessly sent the [...]
President Obama signed into law a $600 billion border security bill Friday that will beef up surveillance on the U.S.- Mexico border. In a statement released Thursday, the president said the bill will make “an important difference” as his administration “continues to work with Congress toward bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders, and [...]
In one of their last acts before a summer recess, U.S. senators approved a $600 million package to beef up security along the Mexican border with 1,500 additional guards and unmanned surveillance drones. The bill, which passed on a voice vote, would be financed by raising fees on foreign-based personnel companies that bring skilled workers [...]
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