U.S. to raise Texas levees in lieu of border wall
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EDINBURG, Texas  - Federal officials said on Friday they will raise a stretch of Rio Grande river levees in Texas instead of building a small section of the controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall across the property of reluctant landowners.
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a new fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border more dangerous.
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Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they've made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.
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The US and Mexico try to defuse a row about increasing violence near their shared border.
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U.S. and Mexican officials will review reports of an intrusion on Mexican soil by workers erecting U.S. border fences between Douglas, Ariz., and the Mexican border city of Agua Prieta, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said.
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Local leaders in South Texas are puzzled and alarmed over the implications of a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a hurricane with heavy storm surge this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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Bush administration lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a section of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.
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By Kent, Joan  La Crosse leaders will start off the new year by considering a proposal directing City Engineer Randy Turtenwald to design barriers for the Riverside Park levee.  The proposal comes three months after the Sept.
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The Teamsters Union said it will ask a federal appeals courts to block the White House plan to begin allowing Mexican trucks to carry cargo anywhere in the United States
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Mexico sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government on Monday saying a plan to build hundreds of miles of fencing on their common border would damage relations.
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By Terry Lee Goodrich, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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SANTA FE, N.M.  - A Texas energy company may get  rights to drill in a pristine swathe of a New Mexico national  forest after a White House task force intervened on its behalf,  a move that has become a hot issue in the battleground state  before next week's presidential election.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN Down to Earth  Something's been largely missing in the debate over building a massive fence along the U.S.-Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants: the potentially devastating impacts on wildlife.
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Supporters of House majority leader Tom DeLay proposed a Republican rules change yesterday that would protect the Texan&#39;s leadership position
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Mexico pleaded with President Bush on Monday to veto a Senate proposal to build a fence to keep illegal immigrants out, saying it could backfire by making the border less secure.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.