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CBP Chief Expects New Border Security Task Forces To Begin Operations This Summer

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 9th, 2015

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CBP Chief Expects New Border Security Task Forces To Begin Operations This Summer

CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske. Photo: CBP

New task forces made up of various components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that are aimed at improving security along the nation’s southern border and maritime approaches are expected to go operational in July, the head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said this week.“Sometime around July the Joint Task Forces will work” that will be led by CBP, the Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of CBP, said on Wednesday at an…

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