Though undermanned, Border Patrol and Coast Guard officials try to disrupt the smuggling trips before they begin.
And we have small Coast Guard patrol boats that can actually do scouting, work with the vessels of opportunity, to identify the small patches of oil and deal with it there.
The chief of staff, Yousef Mangoush, organized a more professional border guard unit to patrol there as well as a separate unit to guard critical infrastructure facilities like oil fields and barracks where foreign oil company employees work and live.
The Coast Guard will patrol the river in boats with machine guns mounted on their bows.
You can set them to concentrate on specific attack modes, patrol, scout, guard zones and form convoys.
Obama, meanwhile, stepped up the use of National Guard troops to patrol the southern border, and deportations grew to nearly 400, 000 in 2011.
They also argued that coordinating key agencies like the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Customs under one department could minimize bureaucracy by eliminating overlap.
Under the proposal, the Coast Guard would be able to patrol waters 12 miles from the U.S. shore, as compared to the current 3-mile limit.
Strangers saving strangers, neighbors pulling neighbors out of fast-flooding houses, policemen jumping off their patrol boats and SUVs, the Coast Guard rescuing people off of roofs and cars, buildings and cellars.
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She said she has called out the National Guard, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the state Office of Emergency Management to "try to get the traffic moving" and get people to shelter.
The coast guard's Tanu was on patrol an hour away when the call came in, Moseley said.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the Volusia County Beach Patrol and the sheriff's office immediately launched a search-and-rescue mission using helicopters, boats and personal watercraft to try to find the Winter Park, Florida, father and son.
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For the moment, the Guard does not have enough vessels both to patrol the high seas for drug smugglers and to protect ports.
The proposed agency would take over the Border Patrol from Justice, Customs from Treasury, the Coast Guard from Transportation, the FBI counterterrorism center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), among others.
Coast Guard rescue aircraft will fly fewer hours and cutters will patrol the seas for fewer hours, says Commandant Adm.
The Border Patrol would remain responsible for catching and detaining illegal immigrants, with National Guard troops providing intelligence gathering, surveillance and other administrative support.
Bush said the National Guard troops would fill in temporarily while the nation's Border Patrol force is expanded.
He has prolonged the deployment of some 1, 200 National Guard troops along the border, to provide backup for the Border Patrol.
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In January, seven vessels from Spain, Britain, France, Portugal and Italy set sail from Gibraltar to patrol the southern Mediterranean, in a first step towards a common European border guard.
President Bush says National Guard troops will be deployed to the southern border until 6, 000 new civilian patrol agents are hired, trained, and in position.
In Alaska, in September 2008, the US Coast Guard had just started operations in the Arctic and we joined a C-130 patrol flight to Barrow.
In the near term, consideration should be given to augmenting existing U.S. Coast Guard resources with civilian professional security assistance personnel (former SEAL and Special Forces personnel) and additional armed patrol craft.
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