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The border task force made its 19 draft recommendations to the Homeland Security Advisory Council on a conference call Wednesday. The suggestions addressed two areas — commerce and border violence — and both said the ports of entry need attention.
McALLEN, Texas — The federal government should hire more Customs officers and increase the scrutiny of outbound traffic at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to recommendations presented Wednesday by a border task force created by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Thousands of Border Patrol agents have been added in recent years to watch the areas between the ports of entry on the southwest border, but that recruitment effort has overshadowed the ports themselves, which need more staffing and better infrastructure, a report from the Southwest Border Task Force said.
Customs "is the one agency that touches both sides (commerce and security) of the border issue," said Lupe Trevino, sheriff of Hidalgo County, Texas, and head of the task force's border security subgroup. "We have to pump them up, augment their assets so they can meet the challenges."
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