Number: RL32562
Title: Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol
Authors: Blaz Nunex-Neto, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: Some issues for Congress to consider could include the slow rate of integration between the USBP's biometric database of illegal aliens and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) biometric database of criminals and terrorists; the number of unauthorized aliens who die attempting to enter the country each year; the increasing attacks on Border Patrol agents, and the threat posed by terrorists along the sparsely defended northern border as well as the more porous southwest border.
Pages: 37
Date: November 20, 2008