Neighbors' help sought to secure porous borders
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AMMAN -- The United States is seeking the support of Iraq's neighbors as it establishes a strong Iraqi border agency to prevent the infiltration of foreign militants, the US customs and border protection chief said yesterday.
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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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In this gritty border town known as a haven for drug smugglers, arms dealers and counterfeiters, stacks of money change hands in the open on every corner and thousands of people each day stream across Friendship Bridge into Ciudad del Este. They carry packages on their backs, in wheelbarrows or on carts, and border police stop few.
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Property owners' resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about its feasibility.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Egypt called in police reinforcements and sealed gaps at the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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People in the Cornish village of Boscastle are trying to protect their properties from flooding.
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The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue. It's the latest battle over a border fence. Eloisa Tamez isn't about to give up land in her family since 1767. "I am not backing down," she told CNN.
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A US team wants to clean up a river estuary by improving living conditions across the Mexican border.
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MAE SOT, Thailand -- This bustling border town has long been a magnet for refugees fleeing Burma's repressive military government and searching for a better life. But many arriving now, on the run from authorities for their role in organizing pro-democracy rallies last month, are not looking to...
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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Hundreds of miles of new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border would be funded under a bill passed on Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives as part of an election-year clamp-down on illegal immigration.
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SELLS, Arizona  - An elite group of Native American trackers that use skills handed down from the ancestral hunt is being tapped to play a larger role in securing the United States' borders.
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At a White House meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Bush urged Iraq's neighbors to help the interim government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi by enforcing border security restrictions in an ...
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This week, three U.S. border crossings -- one from Canada, at Port Huron, and two from Mexico, at Laredo, Tex., and Douglas, Ariz. -- launched a program run by the Department of Homeland Security to collect fingerprints and photos at U.S. borders.
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Israeli border police scuffle with Israeli peace activists in a village near the West Bank town of Ramallah. Photo: AP. Paramilitary border police detained two Palestinians at a checkpoint and
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations -- a goal that has US 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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The Bush administration proposed new spending of more than $2 billion to tighten U.S. borders with fencing along the frontier with Mexico and add patrol agents and more beds for detained illegal immigrants.