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Congress

CBP Increasing Emphasis On Technology Within SBI, Acting Chief Says

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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is increasing its emphasis on the electronic fence portion of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) as the installation of physical fencing along the United States' border with Mexico nears completion, the acting commissioner of the agency said yesterday. Despite setbacks that have occurred on the electronic fencing project, called SBInet, CBP has learned a host of lessons from its mistakes here and now has "confidence in the overall system design" based on…

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