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GAO: Southern Border Technology Deployment Won’t Finish For 10 To 15 Years

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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) new plan to deploy various technologies along the nation's southern border that are tailored to specific Border Patrol Sector needs won't be completed until some time between 2021 and 2026, a government audit official said yesterday. The deployment end date depends on different estimates, Richard Stanna, director of Homeland Security and Justice with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), told a House panel. When the original border security technology plan was conceived…

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