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Most of The Northern Border At Unacceptable Level of Control, GAO Finds

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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker Hardly any of the United States' northern border with Canada is under acceptable control by the Border Patrol, basically just 32 of nearly 4,000 total miles, necessitating a heavy reliance on local law enforcement, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a report released yesterday. Moreover, says the report, the Border Patrol only has full situational awareness of about one-quarter, or 1,007 miles of the northern border, which means it "does not have the ability to detect…

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