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Category Archives: Border Tech

Border Technology for Secure Trade and Infrastructure - Border Blog

Despite frustrations, DHS should look to technology over physical barriers for border security

Published by Accounting.
March 20, 2010 – 12:14 am. Also posted in Advocacy, Infrastructure, Travel & Immigration 0 Comments

The Border Trade Alliance on March 18, 2010 wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano regarding her department’s decision to shift $50 million in funding away from SBInet to already proven, off-the-shelf technology.
 In the letter, BTA expresses its concerns over cost-overruns and missed deadlines, but also makes the case that technology continues to […]

CBP Creates Electronic Reading Room to Increase Public Access to Documents

Published by Policy.
October 26, 2009 – 8:38 pm. Also posted in Advocacy, Import & Export, Press Releases 0 Comments

CBP Creates Electronic Reading Room to Increase Public Access to Documents

(Friday, October 23, 2009)
contacts for this news release <http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10232009_2.xml#contacts#contacts>

Washington - U.S. Customs and Border Protection today launched improvements in Web-based technology designed to increase public access to agency records and documents.

The upgraded CBP Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room will feature records and documents […]

BTA Testifies Before U.S. Senate Immigration Subcommittee on What Remains in Securing the Border

Published by Policy.
May 26, 2009 – 4:53 pm. Also posted in Legislation, Travel & Immigration 0 Comments

 
BTA Urges Greater Investment in Border Infrastructure and Resources, in Conjunction With Immigration Reform Efforts to Secure Border
Washington D.C. - On May 20th, Border Trade Alliance (BTA) founding board member, Samuel F. Vale provided testimony, on the behalf of the BTA, before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border […]

Impacts of DHS Presidential Transition On Borders Uncertain

Published by Policy.
July 29, 2008 – 2:46 pm. Also posted in Advocacy, Import & Export, Travel & Immigration 0 Comments

Border Trade Alliance (BTA) is closely monitoring efforts at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as they prepare for a transition toward new leadership under the next presidential administration that will affect programs as wide raging as secure traveler initiatives to Border Fencing, which directly impact border communities and cross-border trade.
Faced with the […]

GSA Administrator Presses for More Infrastructure at the Border

Published by Director of Policy.
December 13, 2007 – 12:14 am. Also posted in Advocacy, Infrastructure 0 Comments

On Monday December 10, 2007, at the 2008 Homeland Security Outlook Conference in Washington, D.C. Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration outlined a strategy for her agency to move swiftly to improve infrastructure at our nation’s ports of entry (POE).
Administrator Doan communicated recent efforts by GSA to move forward in addressing issues impacted […]

WHTI Success Crucial to Economic Security: BTA Submits Comments to Department of State

Published by Policy.
August 28, 2007 – 11:57 am. Also posted in Advocacy, Travel & Immigration 3 Comments

On Monday August 27, 2007, the Border Trade Alliance (BTA) submitted comments in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) at land and sea ports-of-entry. The BTA has long supported secure travel programs put forward by the federal government. However through its comments to […]

Secure Freight: Challenges to balancing commerce and security

Published by Director of Policy.
August 2, 2007 – 3:19 pm. Also posted in Import & Export 0 Comments

Last week Congress approved legislation adopting the recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission. Included in the security measure is a requirement for all cargo bound for the United States to be screened for nuclear material prior to being loaded upon ships in foreign ports. Since 2003, all ships destined for the United States are required […]

BTA President, Committee Chairs meet with CBP

Published by Policy.
August 1, 2007 – 6:27 pm. Also posted in Advocacy, Import & Export 0 Comments

Also this week, Maria Luisa, Import-Export Committee Chair Dan Garcia, and Kay Olive, Chair of the Border Technologies Committee met with Todd Owen, Executive Director of Cargo and Security Conveyance for Customs and Border Protection, to discuss the Customs and Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program and cargo security standards. The BTA also shared its […]

Outside the Box - At Least Outside the Security Line…

Published by Director of Policy.
June 29, 2007 – 9:47 pm. Also posted in Travel & Immigration 0 Comments

What will the future of travel and commerce at our ports of entry and at our borders look like? It could look similar to what has evolved as part of the Travel Security Administration’s (TSA) Registered Traveler program. The vast realm of new security requirements that evolved as a result of 9/11 have produced a […]

BTA Op-Ed on the Prospects for Immigration Reform Published in Inside Tucson Business

Published by PR.
June 25, 2007 – 5:20 pm. Also posted in Infrastructure, BTA in the News 0 Comments

Inside Tuscon Business and The Rio Grande Guardian recently published an Op-ed, by the Director of Public Policy, Matt Howe, on the marriage of immigration reform and border security. The following is an excerpt from the article:
The national debate over immigration reform and the ongoing regional debate over the construction of a fence along […]

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