The American Civil Liberties Union said that border inspectors have used excessive force and performed humiliating body searches on travelers entering the United States from Mexico.
As I indicated in my last installment of “On the Track of OSAC” we’re shifting our focus this week from the challenges of the Middle East to those intractable ones we now face in Mexico.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said that security on the southern U.S. border "is better now than it ever has been" and that violence from neighboring Mexico hasn't spilled over in a serious way.
A report by the GAO raised questions about potential security gaps along the 4,000-mile border between the U.S. and Canada, with analysts saying the "risk of terrorist activity is high," though the extent of any such activity is unknown.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned Mexico's drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction.
A late-night shootout between Border Patrol agents and gunmen in Arizona near the Mexican border left one agent dead and four of the gunmen in custody, and authorities said they were searching today for one man who got away.