Ranchers, beef industry celebrate long-awaited US border re ...
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EDMONTON (CP) - Cattle ranchers and beef industry officials were throwing cowboy hats in the air Wednesday after the United States announced sweeping plans for opening the border to nearly all Canadian exports of beef and live cattle in March.
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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Rising from the Pacific surf and zig zagging along the border for 14 miles, Tijuana's border fence has done little but push illegal migrants into the Arizona desert and feed the smuggling industry since the fence went up in 1994.
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For many old-time horses the Dallas and Fort Worth conurbation used to be the start of a great journey, driving great herds of cattle from the stockyards north through Texas to the beef-starved states beyond.
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Tokyo -- Japan agreed Saturday to resume imports of some US beef after a 10- month ban that shut cattle ranchers in the United States out of their most lucrative foreign market.
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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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More than 19 months after a mad cow scare closed US borders to Canadian cattle, the United States said Wednesday it will allow limited imports beginning in March.
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(CP) - President George W. Bush offered Saturday to throw his administration's full weight behind reopening the border to Canadian beef within several months.
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Two U.S. consumer groups on Monday  urged the United States to delay reopening its border to young  Canadian cattle due to concerns that Canada may find more cases  of mad cow disease.
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SASABE, Mexico -- Mario Alberto Diaz, a biologist nearing completion of his master's degree, crawled under a barbed-wire fence marking the border with the United States one evening this summer. He had 48 hours to go in his illegal trek across the desert.
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Senior Mexican and US offiicials discuss border security and a proposed immigration deal.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - From indigenous Indian  villages to violence-torn cities on the U.S. border, millions  of Mexicans trekked to cemeteries on Monday to honor their dead  with flowers, food and musical tributes.
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New Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns began his tenure Monday by pledging to get American beef exports moving again to Japan, a lucrative market that has been closed to U.S. producers since the discovery of mad cow disease in this country in December 2003.
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A ragged fence and a canyon called Smugglers Gulch mark the westernmost stretch of the California-Mexico border, a favorite crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug runners.
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President Bush pledged on Tuesday to try  to expedite the opening of U.S. borders to Canadian beef as he  sought to mend ties with Canada frayed by the Iraq war, insults  to the White House and trade disputes.
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OTTAWA (CP) - George W. Bush said he understands Canadian ranchers&#39; frustrations but the president suggested the lumbering US bureaucracy has to sign off before the border can re-open to Canadian cattle.
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Gerry Duckworth nails posters around his cattle ranch just north of the Montana border warning American hunters to get off his land as long as Canadian cattle are banned in the United States.
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Canada is already positioned to benefit from an agreement US officials are touting as a breakthrough beef deal with Japan, says the Canadian Beef Export Federation.