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2027 Budget

Surveillance towers stand between new sections of the primary and secondary steel bollard-style border wall along the US-Mexico border on May 10, 2021 in San Diego County, California. US-Mexico frontier. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS moves forward on autonomous surveillance towers at the border

The agency has had four vendors pass an "autonomy test," Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott said during a budget hearing Thursday.
DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

White House wants to downsize DHS inspector general office

The proposed fiscal year 2027 spending package would trim funding of the key oversight unit at a time when calls for accountability and transparency at DHS are…
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