The administration’s DHS budget proposal for 2011 requests funds to cover 2,000 additional TSA screeners as part of a $734 million plan to deploy 1,000 new advanced imaging technology screening machines at airport checkpoints and new explosive detection equipment for baggage screening.
The budget provides $54 million for the continued modernization and streamlining of transportation security vetting and credentialing, intended to reduce duplicative TSA processes and systems.
The budget requests funding to support 20,000 Border Patrol agents and complete the first segment of Customs and Border Protection’s virtual border fence, including 300 new CBP officers for passenger and cargo screening at ports of entry, as well as expansion of pre-screening operations at foreign airports and land ports of entry.
The budget also provides more than $1.6 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement programs to identify and remove illegal aliens who commit crimes from the United States.