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Security - USA - Many inspections but many gaps in border
NOGALES,Tucson,AZ,USA -Republic Tucson Bureau/KVOA.com ,by Susan Carroll -Mar. 14, 2006: -- Outside a towering inspection bay at the busiest commercial port of entry in Arizona, the line of trucks snakes back into Mexico as far as the eye can see, with hundreds of heavy rigs creeping forward foot by foot... U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents here say they physically inspect or X-ray roughly one in four cargo trucks, a standard considered high in comparison with the screening of shipments into the nation's seaports... The recent controversy over a proposed deal with a Dubai company to manage six U.S. ports highlighted a statistic that many have found alarming: Though CBP agents screen all seaport cargo for high-risk shipments, only about 6 percent of cargo is physically inspected on American soil...
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