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State of InsecurityHow State and Local Immigration Policies areUndermining Homeland SecurityFAIR8/26/03IntroductionTwo years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, conflicting state security policies have become the weakest link in the immigration-related dimensions of U.S. national security.Despite the federal government's increased push to tie immigration enforcement to national security, states continue to adopt policies that fly in the face of the goals of federal immigration law. Under pressure from foreign governments, some employers, and open borders activists, many states and local jurisdictions are offering safe harbor to illegal aliens.The members of the next team of Al Qaeda terrorists who find...

<p>Should the United States cut back on the number of immigrants allowed into the country?</p>

<p>A group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona are using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.</p> <p>Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.</p>