Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations launched a website this month intended to foster transparency with stakeholders and the public about their biometrics entry/exit program. Keep Reading
Homeland Security Today, the nation’s leading news and analysis site for homeland security, today announced that Elizabeth Neumann, Dr. Mitchell Simmons, and John Wagner have joined as Contributing Editors to the site. Keep Reading
Wagner was presented the medal Wednesday in a ceremony with Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan. Keep Reading
Introducing HSToday's new Leadership Interview series to increase clarity on the law and your government. Keep Reading
Sabatino currently serves as Director, Field Operations, Miami/Tampa, overseeing a combined workforce of over 2,900 employees and 22 ports of entry throughout the State of Florida. Keep Reading
Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner Wagner has been assigned to CBP headquarters in D.C. since 1999 and was appointed to his current role in the Office of Field Operations (OFO) in April 2014. Keep Reading
Wagner said "there may be a small handful" of false positives, but "we are just not seeing that." Keep Reading
The meeting was the third in an ongoing series of discussions about measures that CBP is taking to protect traveler privacy during the biometric facial comparison process at U.S. ports of entry. Keep Reading
"We apparently did not have the same level of controls and audit capabilities on that because it was a standalone, closed system," lawmakers told of compromised pilot program. Keep Reading
Wagner said one question is how to weave tech advances into the “gauntlet of checks” already being conducted at congested ports of entry. Keep Reading
Today, CBP employs about 60,000 men and women who each day process more than 1 million passengers and pedestrians and $6.5 billion worth of imported goods arriving into the U.S. Keep Reading