Analysis: Border security move has political angle - Kansas City Star7 May 2009
</p><p>Under Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, nearly 670 miles of fence and barriers went up on the U.S.-Mexico border. The Border Patrol was doubled to about 18000 agents. The immigration agency's Fugitive Operations Teams saw its ... John Cornyn, R-Texas.</p><p>"It's not enough," Cornyn said, pointing out that the number of border agents pales in comparison with, say, New York City's police force, which has nearly 40000 officers.</p><p>Obama has been building on ...
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Mexico emerging from flu scare | The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne IN6 May 2009
Scheduled to land before sunrise, the travelers are returning to a capital that has begun emerging from a government-ordered lockdown designed to contain the spread of the virus that has caused 31 deaths in Mexico and the U.S. and ... The Texas woman, the second confirmed person to die with swine flu in the U.S., lived not far from the Mexico border and had chronic medical conditions, as did the Mexico City toddler who died of swine flu last week during a visit to Houston ...
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