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With Recent Awards, CBP On Track With NII Deployment Plans, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 18th, 2021

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With Recent Awards, CBP On Track With NII Deployment Plans, Official Says

Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner of CBP's Office of Field Operations. Photo: CBP

In the next two years Customs and Border Protection expects to dramatically increase its inspection of vehicles and cargo entering the U.S. at land ports of entry along the nation’s southwest border, an agency official said on Wednesday. Currently, large-scale non-intrusive inspection (NII) systems scan less than 2 percent of passenger vehicles and 15 percent of commercial vehicles crossing the southwest border but those numbers are expected to increase to 40 percent and 72 percent respectively by fiscal year 2023,…

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