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Caravans are gone and agents taking stowaways off trains, but criminals still preying on those lacking clear path to US asylumPolice in Chihuahua, Mexico, say they have freed 1,245 migrants from criminal gangs in the past seven months. The kidnapping, extortion and violence inflicted on the foreign nationals who come to the border looking for a way into the United States is rising even though overall migrant traffic has dropped dramatically in recent months, a law enforcement official says. “We have diminished migration flows in terms of caravans and people arriving on trains. But I must point out we are...

Imagine Pres. Obama had been informed that terrorists were seeking to smuggle thousands of canisters of biological weapons into the United States from Mexico. Would he refuse to close the southern border because some canisters had already been smuggled in? I would certainly hope not. But at his press conference tonight, PBO employed similar logic to justify his refusal to close the Mexican border to prevent additional people infected with swine flu—walking if unwitting biological weapons you might say—from entering our country . . . . View video here.

Jan. 3, 2004. 01:00 AM U.S. border closing plans revealedTerror attack could force shutdown, documents show American law might hurt Ontario manufacturing, trade THERESA BOYLEQUEEN'S PARK BUREAU The United States would virtually close the Canada-U.S. border if a terrorist attack were launched anywhere near it, according to documents obtained under access-to-information legislation. "One additional terrorist attack, that had its origins in Canada or occurred at, or along, the Canada-U.S. border, would likely cause Congress to lift the drawbridge," warn the documents from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. The confidential government documents also sound the alarm over newly...