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Law enforcement personnel work the scene of a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore. Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bruce Ely)

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A family leaves the scene of a multiple shooting at Clackamas Town Center Mall in Clackamas, Ore., Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

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DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.

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** FILE ** A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an X-37B experimental robotic space plane lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Air Force officials said the unmanned space plane, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, provides a way to test technologies in space. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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** FILE ** This photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a post-accident view of the vehicles from a wrong-way collision in Fountain, Colo., on Sept. 24, 2011. Hundreds of people are killed each a year when drivers turn the wrong way into the face of oncoming traffic on high-speed highways, and a majority of the crashes involves drivers with blood alcohol levels more than twice the legal limit, a federal accident researcher said. (Associated Press/National Transportation Safety Board)

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**FILE** Steam rises from towers at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas, on April 16, 2010. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Crews work on construction of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline near County Road 363 and County Road 357, east of Winona, Texas, on Dec. 3, 2012. (Associated Press/The Tyler Morning Telegraph)

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Fan Jose Ruelas lights a candle outside the home of singer Jenni Rivera's mother in Lakewood, Calif., on Dec. 10, 2012. Rivera died the previous day in a plane crash in Mexico. (Associated Press)

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Singer Jenni Rivera is seen on a video screen at a music store in Mexico City on Dec. 10, 2012. U.S. authorities confirmed that Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a Dec. 9 plane crash in northern Mexico. (Associated Press)

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A person takes a CD of singer Jenni Rivera displayed for sale at a music store in Mexico City on Dec. 10, 2012. U.S. authorities confirmed that Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a Dec. 9 plane crash in northern Mexico. (Associated Press)

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A California driver's license bearing the name of Jenni Rivera sits on the ground at the site where a plane carrying Rivera crashed near Iturbide, Mexico, on Dec. 9, 2012. (Associated Press)