Port-of-entry demands have fueled private partnerships for CBP

Federal Times: Facing smaller budgets and growing volumes of traffic throughout the nation’s ports of entry, Customs and Border Protection has sought help from the private market to make up the gap. Now the House Homeland Security subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security is considering whether those public-private pilot programs should be permanently extended.

The land ports of entry manned by CBP include border crossings with Canada and Mexico, where its estimated that more than $2 billion in goods cross daily.

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