Environmental Laws Waived to Press Work on Border Fence
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The homeland security secretary waived several environmental laws to continue building a border fence through a national conservation area in Arizona.
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The House voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.
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Concerned about a crackdown on immigrant labor, more farmers have been moving across the border to Mexico.
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Environmentalists win legal round to protect a reptile, but off-roaders push to keep desert areas open.
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The US Senate approves the building of a fence along the Mexican border designed to keep out illegal migrants.
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The Bush administration has approved  oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands in the Otero Mesa  in Mew Mexico, despite pleas from the state's governor and  environmentalists to protect the desert grassland from energy  exploration.
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President Bush on Thursday signed a homeland security bill that includes an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and $1.2 billion for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration.
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Pedestrians at the nation's busiest border crossing are losing conveniences because of security measures that critics say amount to an unnecessary crackdown.
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DOUGLAS, Arizona  - A plan to fence off a third of   the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may   harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and   jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
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By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 1--LANSING -- Michigan House Democrats kicked off a renewed effort Wednesday to block other states and Canada from using Michigan landfills, touting huge waste fee increases and other measures as a way to stop garbage at the border.
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By Snow, Nick  Categorical exclusions (CEs) from environmental documentation authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 are not compromising federal lands in the US West, land-use officials told a hearing by two House Resources Committee subcommittees on Apr. 26.
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The 1.5-mile barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border was designed to keep cars from illegally crossing into the United States. There's just one problem: It was accidentally built on Mexican soil.
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Illegal immigrants seeking to make a home in this northeastern Pennsylvania city could face barriers to finding a home and job after the city council passed one of the nation&#039;s strictest ordinances to fight illegal immigration.
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Bulldozers are rolling again on the U.S.-Mexico border, moving hundreds of tons of dirt to make way for a 16-foot steel fence in an area that once was the most popular crossing for illegal immigrants.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash.  - The U.S. government is  stepping up efforts to patrol its porous northern border with  Canada by using helicopters, airplanes and boats to monitor  illegal immigration and drug traffic, officials said on Friday.
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A few Texas ranchers tired of costly repairs to cattle fences damaged by illegal immigrants have installed an easier route over the U.S.-Mexican border &amp;#151; ladders.