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US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight – Nation Wires – MiamiHerald.com

ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT: US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight – Nation Wires – MiamiHerald.com.

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Homeland Security Department to Use Drones on Mexican Borders

Amid a heated debate over legislation passed earlier this year in Arizona aimed at identifying, prosecuting, and deporting illegal immigrants, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will be increasing the number of unmanned drones to patrol the U.S. Mexican border, hunting for drugs and illegal immigrants. Continue reading

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U.S. Border Patrol Increases Use Of Unmanned Drones For Surveillance

The Huffington Post Cristina Costanini 5/1/2012 The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency is ramping up its use of fancy technology to monitor the nation’s borders again — this time by opening up Washington’s airspace to two unmanned Predator drones. … Continue reading

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More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border

By: William Booth December 21, 2011 This is the semi-covert cutting edge of homeland security, where federal law enforcement authorities are rapidly expanding a military-style unmanned aerial reconnaissance operation along the U.S.-Mexico border — a region that privacy watchdogs say … Continue reading

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