{"id":3744,"date":"2011-02-11T07:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T12:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2011-02-11T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:06:06","slug":"morning-read-vigilance-on-the-us-canada-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/11\/morning-read-vigilance-on-the-us-canada-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Better vigilance on the US-Canada border?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, a Federal GAO report found that despite the billions and billions of dollars spent since 9\/11 &#8212; $3 billion were spent in 2010 alone &#8212; US-Canada border security is still woefully lacking.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/local\/434516_border11.html?source=mypi\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Border Patrol maintains an &#8221;acceptable level of control&#8221; over only  32 miles of the 4,000-mile border, the GAO report said.<\/p>\n<p>However,  officials of Customs Border Protection, the DHS unit that oversees the  Border Patrol, stated that agents maintain &#8221;situational awareness&#8221;  along 1,007 miles of the border, about one-quarter of the total.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New York&#8217;s US Senate delegation is now pushing for the Department of Homeland Security to invest in new military-grade radar systems to watch for drug smuggling flights.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x998539275\/Schumer-pushes-for-border-radar-technology\">This from the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Sen. Chuck] Schumer said the spike in illegal smuggling has created &#8220;serious  issues that&#8217;s endangering families and communities along northern New  York,&#8221; leaving the area &#8220;grappling with the consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As  law-enforcement personnel try to strengthen land and waterway security,  Schumer said, international drug lords now look to the sky for ways to  bring drugs into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we plug one loophole, they find another,&#8221; the senator said Thursday during a teleconference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Is this a good investment?\u00a0 Can this kind of technology tame the smuggling along the vast, rugged border region?\u00a0 Your comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, a Federal GAO report found that despite the billions and billions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4884,880,5619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}