<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>New radar aims to detect illegal tunnels on U.S. border : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/"/><tagline>New radar aims to detect illegal tunnels on U.S. border : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>technology.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2010, technology.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2010-03-21T19:30:40+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[New radar aims to detect illegal tunnels on U.S. border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/technology/l/127187/1/" /><id>127187</id><summary><![CDATA[New radar aims to detect illegal tunnels on U.S. border]]></summary><issued>2009-07-09T16:54:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-09T16:54:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Tunnel diggers have been hard at work along the U.S. border in recent days and months, the agency knows. Of every tunnel ever found by a patrol agent, 60 percent were discovered in the last three years, and patrollers spot a new one every month.]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Border Barrier Approved]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/politics/l/1727/1/" /><id>1727</id><summary><![CDATA[Border Barrier Approved]]></summary><issued>2006-09-30T16:29:54+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-30T16:29:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate on Friday approved and sent to President Bush a bill calling for construction of a 700-mile wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, voting overwhelmingly for a project that became the centerpiece of efforts to improve border security and stem illegal immigration.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three illegal immigrants shot dead crossing US border: police ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/10504/1/" /><id>10504</id><summary><![CDATA[Three illegal immigrants shot dead crossing US border: police ]]></summary><issued>2007-02-10T12:23:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-10T12:23:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What have those loose cannons in the Border Patrol done now?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Patrol Kills 2 of 23 Illegals Trying to Cross Border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/14800/1/" /><id>14800</id><summary><![CDATA[Patrol Kills 2 of 23 Illegals Trying to Cross Border]]></summary><issued>2007-03-31T20:36:34+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-31T20:36:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We must have a really great country if people are killing themselves just to get in.  America, F-Yeah!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to Sneak Across the US Border ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/27092/1/" /><id>27092</id><summary><![CDATA[How to Sneak Across the US Border ]]></summary><issued>2007-07-12T01:06:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-12T01:06:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Check out the clever footware discovered by the US Border Patrol.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Drug smugglers bribing U.S. agents on Mexico border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/68853/1/" /><id>68853</id><summary><![CDATA[Drug smugglers bribing U.S. agents on Mexico border]]></summary><issued>2008-07-15T15:42:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-15T15:42:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[U.S. Border Patrol agent Reynaldo Zuniga was arrested last month lugging a bag of cocaine up from the Rio Grande, one of a growing number of law enforcement officers accused of taking bribes from drug gangs.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bush Sign Bills to Build 700 Mile Fence Along Border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/politics/l/4473/1/" /><id>4473</id><summary><![CDATA[Bush Sign Bills to Build 700 Mile Fence Along Border]]></summary><issued>2006-10-26T11:07:14+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-26T11:07:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[President Bush this morning signed into law a bill authorizing the federal government to install fencing, cameras, motion sensors and other types of barriers to stem illegal immigration along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Egypt Closing Gaza Border]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/world/l/48355/1/" /><id>48355</id><summary><![CDATA[Egypt Closing Gaza Border]]></summary><issued>2008-01-25T12:00:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-25T12:00:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Egyptian security forces have begun shutting down the border with the Gaza Strip two days after it was blown open by armed Gaza militants. Hundreds of thousands of people have crossed into Egypt to buy food and other supplies, but border guards are now trying to shut down the flow of people. <br/>Update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/48074/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this story</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[UK uses robots to fight illegal immigration]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/69439/1/" /><id>69439</id><summary><![CDATA[UK uses robots to fight illegal immigration]]></summary><issued>2008-07-21T10:41:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-21T10:41:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A robot, almost the size of a briefcase, has been introduced by the United Kingdom border agency to nab illegal immigrants trying to cross into the country.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mexican President criticises planned US border fence.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/politics/l/37720/1/" /><id>37720</id><summary><![CDATA[Mexican President criticises planned US border fence.]]></summary><issued>2007-10-08T16:20:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-08T16:20:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He says we should be building bridges, not fences. He also said the way to stop illegal immigration is to build economic growth and opportunities in Mexico.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Handcuffed Mexican kids steal U.S. border agent car]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/36739/1/" /><id>36739</id><summary><![CDATA[ Handcuffed Mexican kids steal U.S. border agent car]]></summary><issued>2007-09-25T23:16:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-25T23:16:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rejecting Authority at Police State Checkpoint]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/62294/1/" /><id>62294</id><summary><![CDATA[Rejecting Authority at Police State Checkpoint]]></summary><issued>2008-05-19T01:32:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-19T01:32:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The checkpoint in this video was nearly 50 miles north of the Mexican border, so it would have been utterly pointless in stopping illegal immigration. The real purpose of these checkpoints is to condition Americans to get used to the police state.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Dune Bunny&quot; labeled smugglers zip past border patrols]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/52711/1/" /><id>52711</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Dune Bunny&quot; labeled smugglers zip past border patrols]]></summary><issued>2008-03-02T08:08:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-02T08:08:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Attention Mexican smugglers - it's real easy to cross the border in Souther California through the Imperial Dunes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dozens die in Turkey border clash]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/39096/1/" /><id>39096</id><summary><![CDATA[Dozens die in Turkey border clash]]></summary><issued>2007-10-21T18:25:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-21T18:25:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[At least 12 Turkish soldiers have been killed following an ambush by Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border - with 32 rebels also killed, officials say.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[U.S./Mexico border fence finally coming to good use]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/weird/l/131929/1/" /><id>131929</id><summary><![CDATA[U.S./Mexico border fence finally coming to good use]]></summary><issued>2009-08-29T08:27:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-29T08:27:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Government Cracks Down On Illegal Immigrants]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/58083/1/" /><id>58083</id><summary><![CDATA[Government Cracks Down On Illegal Immigrants]]></summary><issued>2008-04-13T15:49:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-13T15:49:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Thanks to increased check points, more soldiers and federal police patrolling the border the number of illegal immigrants have greatly declined. <br/><br/>Oh, I'm sorry did I mention that the huge crackdown is in Mexico? No, if it was done here in the US that would be racist.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ACLU: 2/3 of US population lives in &quot;Constitution-free&quot; zone]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/132114/1/" /><id>132114</id><summary><![CDATA[ACLU: 2/3 of US population lives in &quot;Constitution-free&quot; zone]]></summary><issued>2009-09-01T00:36:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-01T00:36:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution contains a border-related exception to unreasonable search and seizure laws, permitting searches at border checkpoints that wouldn't be permitted elsewhere. But federal statute 8 CFR 287.1 (a)(1-3) defines the border zone for enforcement purposes as encompassing an area within 100 miles of the actual border, with the possibility of extending it further under certain circumstances. This means that the US Border Patrol could conceivably set up random checkpoints asking travelers for a passport in places like Columbus, Ohio; Houston; or anywhere in the state of Florida. And, in fact, it appears that it has been doing exactly this.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[RISE IN BRIBERY TESTS INTEGRITY OF U.S. BORDER]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/4155/1/" /><id>4155</id><summary><![CDATA[RISE IN BRIBERY TESTS INTEGRITY OF U.S. BORDER]]></summary><issued>2006-10-23T17:46:31+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-23T17:46:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Bribery of federal and local officials by Mexican smugglers is rising sharply, and with it the fear that a culture of corruption is taking hold along the 2,000-mile border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Illegal immigrant game canceled at college]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/17014/1/" /><id>17014</id><summary><![CDATA[Illegal immigrant game canceled at college]]></summary><issued>2007-04-19T09:32:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-19T09:32:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The campus College Republican chapter at the University of Iowa has canceled a planned event similar to the game Capture the Flag where two teams representing illegal immigrants and the U.S. Border Patrol compete to cross a dividing line representing the U.S.-Mexico border.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fake FedEx Trucks:  When the Drugs Absolutely Have to Get There]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/plime-com/l/48484/1/" /><id>48484</id><summary><![CDATA[Fake FedEx Trucks:  When the Drugs Absolutely Have to Get There]]></summary><issued>2008-01-26T16:10:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-26T16:10:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Savvy criminals are using some of the country's most credible logos, including FedEx, Wal-Mart, DirecTV and the U.S. Border Patrol, to create fake trucks to smuggle drugs, money and illegal aliens across the border, according to a report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Illegal Immigrants Will Be Included in Health Care Reform]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://technology.plime.com/politics/l/133254/1/" /><id>133254</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Illegal Immigrants Will Be Included in Health Care Reform]]></summary><issued>2009-09-19T02:21:08+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-19T02:21:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a landmark ruling, that most lawyers know about, and that every professor of constitutional law knows about, called Plyler vs. Doe (1982), the Supreme Court ordered Texas to make the same education available to illegal immigrants as it does to citizens]]></content></entry></feed>