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The border at Tijuana has seen a resurgence as an illegal crossing point into the U.S. with the creation by smugglers of at least 22 new routes. According to a study by the office of State Civil Protection, along with the Beta Group, immigrant smugglers developed new ways to arrive in the U.S. that allow them to outmaneuver the Border Patrol. The majority of routes are in areas that the smugglers no longer used, such as Otay Mesa, according to Arturo Aragon Cabello, an investigator with Civil Protection. The new routes are located, he added, in the neighborhoods known as...

INHOFE SAYS INTELLIGENCE REFORM BILL OVERLOOKS MAJOR ISSUES Wednesday, December 8, 2004 WASHINGTON--U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) today voted against the final passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (S.2845), which was eventually approved by the Senate (89-2). "Today I joined the majority of our Oklahoma delegation in voting against the final passage of this bill," Inhofe said. "While there where many provisions I agreed with, unfortunately there were also glaring omissions that where impossible to overlook and caused me to oppose final passage. "Stripped from the final version of this bill were five provisions...