DHS Secretary Highlights DHS Southwest Border Security Efforts
Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano spoke at the University of Texas at El Paso on January 31, 2011, highlighting DHS's efforts over the past two years to secure the Southwest border. She stated that DHS has deployed historic levels of resources and has increased collaboration with federal, state, local and tribal, and Mexican partners. In the coming months, DHS will also deploy two new forward operating bases to improve border activity coordination, tactical communications systems, and will add 1,000 new Border Patrol Agents.
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She added that SBInet was an ineffective system and that DHS is now redirecting SBInet resources to other, proven technologies -- tailored to each border region -- to better meet the operational needs of the Border Patrol.