$2.7M Needed To Plug Border Tunnels
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Key entrances have been plugged in some of the biggest tunnels used to smuggle people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border but the passageways remain largely intact
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Blog: Some towns are using public safety grants for law enforcement wireless networks to cover their initial costs for building a broadband infrastructure.
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It would cost at least $94 billion to find, detain and remove all 12 million people believed to be staying illegally in the United States, the federal government estimated Wednesday.
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Mexican border immigration is a mess. But we would be hypocrites to suddenly penalize 12 million here illegally for work, after winking at their crime for years to benefit our own economy. The borders must be secured and a worker pass system must be adopted.
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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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Illegal immigrants to the United  States cost the federal government over $10 billion a year, but  that figure would increase almost threefold if they were  granted legal status, according to a study released on  Wednesday.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 20--Pima County will continue to pay for water stations in the desert to aid illegal border crossers.
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The measure would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 in three stages over two years.
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Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has chosen potential private partners for a US$2.7 billion (euro2.15 billion) project to boost its faltering petrochemicals business.
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Town officials are hoping the state can unearth $1.4 million to help bring sewers to the Medway 495 Business Park. Otherwise, they say, some 250 area jobs may be lost -- not to mention thousands of dollars in annual tax revenue.
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Samsung Electronics is planning to begin construction of a Line 7-2 at its fabrication facility in Tanjeong, Korea. Samsung will make a US$273 million investment in order to start off the construction of the building for the new line.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country by land from Mexico and Canada has been delayed.
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Northern Ireland Electricity and its southern counterpart ESB have made an investment of 19.6mn($24.3m), including 6.5m of European Regional Development Fund support, in the interconnectors which will increase ...
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The U.S. government said it plans to build 70 miles of 16-foot-tall (5 meter) border fencing in southern Texas, including a section through a sensitive wildlife refuge, but local opponents vowed on Tuesday to keep fighting the wall.
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The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
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Key entrances have been plugged in some of the biggest tunnels used to smuggle people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border but the passageways remain largely intact, raising concerns that smugglers might reuse them, according to a published report.
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Leaks in the $15 billion tunnel project raise questions about oversight, which may affect plans in other cities.