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CBSA & DHS Release Joint Report on Entry/Exit Initiative: Phase I “Results...
4/15/13 Update: CBSA’s press release is available here, and the joint report is available here. Yahoo!Finance highlights the significant progress made on Canada and the United States’ Entry/Exit...
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Canada-US Agencies Release BTB Cross-Border Business Facilitation Report
On Wednesday, Canadian and American federal agencies released a report that assesses current and maps out possible future Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan business traveler initiatives. The goal:...
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DHS Announces Implementation of Phase II of Entry/Exit Initiative
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began implementing Phase II of the Entry/Exit Initiative last Friday. (Learn more about the Entry/Exit Initiative, a key Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan...
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USA Today: Napolitano’s Departure Will Make 15 of 45 DHS Leadership Positions...
Whoever follows Janet Napolitano as the next head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) faces a tough management challenge from day one. DHS has a significantly high number of leadership...
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DHS Border Fee Study Gets Axed in the Senate
A proposed border fee study, attached to boilerplate in the White House’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) FY14 Budget Recommendation, has been axed by the Senate. (Read previous developments on...
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Michael Harris: “[P]olice forces in both countries already have those...
In today’s iPolitics, Michael Harris comes out against NxtGen, a key Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan initiative. Harris argues that the current system for crossborder law enforcement already...
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DHS Chief Diplomatic Officer, Windsor-Essex Chamber of Commerce CEO Extol...
The Windsor Star reports on yesterday’s lunch meeting between Alan Bersin, DHS’s chief diplomatic officer, and Matt Marchand, president and CEO of the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce. The...
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Biometric Exit Border System & Beyond the Border
A House subcommittee hearing on the long-awaited implementation of a U.S. biometric border exit system highlights the value of maintaining and building upon the Canada-U.S. security relationship. El...
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“We need this like a hole in the head.”: U.S. Government Shutdown & the...
The partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government that started today at midnight will not shutdown the Canada-U.S. border. But there are fears that the shutdown will sap the U.S. economic recovery’s...
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Jeh Johnson Selected as New DHS Chief
News outlets are reporting that U.S. President Barack Obama plans to nominate Jeh Johnson as Secretary of Homeland Security. With a close second by The Daily Beast, ABCNews appears to offer–at this...
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