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 | | In 1932 the patrol was placed under the authority of two directors, one in charge of the Mexican border office at El Paso, the other in charge of the Canadian border office at Detroit. |
 | | In 1958 the El Paso office of the border patrol established a Fraudulent Document Center that was afterward moved to Yuma. |
 | | The border patrol of the 1990s carries out its functions with a variety of devices, including helicopters, blimps, airplanes, radar, floodlights, motion detectors, cameras, informants, dogs, various vehicles, and fences and walls. |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/UU/ncujh.html (1584 words) |
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