U.S. turns to horses to secure borders
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ALTAR VALLEY, Ariz  - U.S. Border Patrol agent Galen Huffman leans over the saddle to look at faint tracks in a cattle trail leading up from the Mexico border.
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U.S. officials want to see if the same technology that speeds cars through highway tolls and identifies lost pets can unclog border crossings without compromising security.
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In order to ship as much as 10 tons of ephedrine from Canada to California for two years, a drug ring found a dependable way to get its supplies across the border: horse trailers owned by Buffalo-area harness racers.
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An innovative drug and alcohol programme using horses is trialled at a hospital in the Borders.
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The Department of Homeland Security   on Thursday said it hired Boeing Co. BA.N to build a   projected $2 billion "virtual fence" equipped with sensors and   cameras along the U.S. border with Mexico and Canada to help   control illegal immigration.
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In some quarters, they were seen as outside intruders trying to tell the United States how to run its affairs. They were welcomed and honored in others, even asked to pose for souvenir photographs.
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The selection of Boeing Co. to erect a "virtual fence" along 6,000 miles of U.S. border marks a potential turning point in the government's long quest to stop illegal immigration, but its success hinges on overcoming obstacles that doomed past efforts, funding shortages and other problems with the...
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The United States has begun flying  up to 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to  Afghanistan to provide increased security for that country's  Oct. 9 presidential election, the military said on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of U.S. soldiers have established their northernmost base in Afghanistan, pushing further up the border with Pakistan to block militants crossing jagged mountains, train fledgling local forces and build support among wary tribesmen.
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The Department of Homeland Security is seeking money and employees to secure U.S. borders under President Bush's budget, while hiking airline passenger fees, as a Senate panel endorsed a new leader for the agency.
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The Department of Homeland Security   on Thursday hired Boeing Co. to develop sensors, cameras and   other equipment to help U.S. agents control the vast,   7,500-mile U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada.
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More than 18,000 US troops and innumerable Afghan forces are in the process of searching every inch of Afhganistan and Afghan-Pak border.
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Along the expansive Canadian border, a lack of agents and antiquated motion sensors can make it difficult to distinguish between a would-be terrorist and a wayward moose, officials say.
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A NASCAR race car, sponsored by the U.S. Border Patrol. Billboards hundreds of miles from the Rio Grande, promoting a career as a border agent. TV commercials for the federal agency, aired during Dallas Cowboys games.
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The Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to allow the importation of live cattle and beef from Canada despite two new cases of mad cow disease in Alberta.
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The U.S. Senate on Friday overwhelmingly agreed to authorize construction of a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, sending to President George W. Bush before the November 7 elections a bill that Republicans hope will showcase their efforts to stop illegal immigration.
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Play the horses? Use that to beat the bulls and the bears.