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[caption id="attachment_2446" align="alignleft" width="300"] A US Customs and Border Patrol officer sits in his jeep monitoring the border fence between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, CA. (Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake)&#160;[/caption]How to Measure the Effectiveness of Border Security, Jason Margolis, theworld.org, 2013/03/18"The US government has devoted a lot of resources to sealing the US-Mexican border. But just how effective has the build-up been, and what is the best way to measure it?Host Marco Werman speaks with Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has been researching these questions.Alden said the government’s data is complete. “When Congress asks the Department of Security: ‘Give us some evidence about where border security is at.’ DHS has very little to provide.”" ...*Read more :http://www.theworld.org/2013/03/effectiveness-border-security/Edward Alden's Congressional Testimony on Measuring Border  SecurityThe World: Texas Border Residents Argue Against More SecurityMargolis Posts :http://www.theworld.org/author/jason-margolis/