According to the Homeland Security inspector general's report, the border-patrol agency has 10 such drones.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve their country -- Border Patrol agents, FBI agents, civilians who work at the Pentagon -- all will suffer significant pay cuts and furloughs.
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In the real world of policing, it's impossible for law enforcement officers -- particularly those who lack the specialized training given to Border Patrol agents -- to make assumptions about one's legal status without taking race and ethnicity into account.
By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.
Several off-duty Border Patrol agents "tackled" the man and a sheriff's deputy removed him from the theater.
Visit the American-Mexican border patrol at El Paso, and the problem is plain.
She had been ejected from the Minutemen, a self-appointed border patrol group, and started her own splinter group, the Minutemen American Defence Fund.
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Washington (CNN) -- Nine Border Patrol stations will be closed within the next six months to move 41 agents closer to the southern and northern borders, according to a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Gonzales, 21, of Huntsville, Texas -- were taken into custody last week while on a routine border patrol near the Yugoslavia-Macedonia border.
History may recall a shift in the Middle East power balance in the 19 days after Hezbollah's provocative cross-border attack on an Israeli army patrol.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, later tried to require that the number of U.S. border patrol agents be tripled on the U.S.-Mexico border and the amount of equipment stationed there be quadrupled before any immigrant could apply for a change in legal status.
The Border Patrol has 20, 000 agents -- more than twice as many as there were in 2004.
In the budget year that ended in September, Border Patrol agents arrested 356, 873 would-be border crossers along the Mexican border.
He said the three U.S. soldiers, captured a week ago while on patrol near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border, were being treated well.
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In fiscal year 2011, there were 18, 506 U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Southwest Border Sectors -- up steadily from 3, 555 agents in 1992, according to Customs and Border Protection figures.
Up to 5, 000 Border Patrol agents will be called from the border -- the mother of ironies for the Republicans who complain that the administration isn't doing enough on border security.
They have speeded the construction of a vast concrete wall along Israel's 240-km (150-mile) border with Egypt and deployed another brigade to patrol it.
According to a White House press release dated Sept. 29th, the U.S. is providing high-tech equipment to help the Frontier Corps patrol the border with Afghanistan.
Their community awareness camps educate families in rural villages and city slums about the dangers of sex trafficking, and a daily patrol at crossing points along the India-Nepal border successfully rescues an average of four Nepali girls a day.
But it is a twitchy Israeli foot-patrol that watches the sightseers, and forbids cross-border sales of ice cream, while the Ghanaians look on unconcerned.
Along a two-mile stretch of the border just outside El Paso, five Border Patrol vehicles wait, ready to give chase should anyone manage to get past the fence.
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But Hunter volunteered that he would pardon Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, two U.S. border patrol agents facing lengthy prison sentences for shooting an unarmed drug smuggling suspect along the Texas-Mexico border.
Personally, I'm convinced that the answer to America's immigration woes is a middle-of-the-road approach that combines enforcement measures (continued workplace raids, speedier deportations, more spending on tools and technology for border patrol agents, etc.) with guest workers, an increase in legal immigration, a tamper-proof ID card for all U.S. employees, tougher sanctions for employers and a path to earned legalization for illegal immigrants who came into the country before January 1, 2000.
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