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Along With Border Barrier Funds, Trump Seeks Huge Increase For Security Detection Equipment

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

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Along With Border Barrier Funds, Trump Seeks Huge Increase For Security Detection Equipment

U.S. Customs and Border protection uses imaging equipment such as Rapiscan's Z Portal for inspecting trucks for contraband. Photo: OSI Systems

A new proposal this week by the Trump administration outlines specific increases sought as part of a fiscal year 2019 appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, including hundreds of millions of additional dollars for equipment that can be used to detect drugs, contraband, and weapons in vehicles and cargo entering the southern U.S. at land ports of entry. The focal point of the request is the well-publicized $5.7 billion President Trump wants for 234 miles of steel barrier along…

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