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Technology Important For Border Security, Napolitano Says

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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

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The nation's borders will have to rely to an important degree on technology such as the troubled electronic fencing project in the southwestern United States, as part of a system to prevent illegal entries into the country, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), the nominee to become the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), recently said. Any border protection system will have to be composed of "boots on the ground," technology, physical fencing, and interior enforcement of the…

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