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February 21, 2013 |
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Border Security: Understanding Threats at U.S. Borders
By Marc R. Rosenblum, Jerome P. Bjelopera, and Kristin M. Finklea
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Beginning in the 1970s, the United States engaged in sustained and intertwined efforts to
combat illegal migration and drug flows at the Southwest border. Border patrol staffing (focused
primarily on immigration control) climbed eleven-fold between 1975 and 2011,and spending
by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, focused primarily on counter-narcotics)
increased about five-fold during the same period.....[citing TRAC research].
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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