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<item><title><![CDATA[ Immigration Prosecutions Hit New High ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102192.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/01/AR2008060102192.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal law enforcement agencies have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to new U.S. data. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prosecutions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hit]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Del Rio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Gonzales]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dean Boyd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heather Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laredo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Friel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mukasey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Culberson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John M. Roll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melissa Wagoner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.J. Bonner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[DOJ Executive Office for United States Attorneys]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Border Patrol Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Syracuse University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Suicides Point to Gaps in Treatment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202948.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051202948.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Peasant farmer Jose Lopez-Gregorio, 32, left his wife and five children behind in Guatemala with two bags of corn, barely enough food for one month, when he decided to find work in the United States. Detained crossing the Mexican border and held in an Arizona immigration center, he felt guilty, he told guards, eating three meals a day. Lopez had been inside one month and eight days when he strangled himself with a bedsheet. Five days earlier, the staff had placed him on suicide watch, only to be overruled within hours by the center's psychologist. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Suicides]]></category><category><![CDATA[Point]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaps]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Treatment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Slate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erik Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann Schofield Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isaias Vasquez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risperdal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gustavo Cadavid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laurie Goldstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Sparks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Lopez-Gregorio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth (New Jersey)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geovanny Garcia-Mejia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloria Armendariz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Katherine Falk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Teran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Matt Kleiman]]></category><category><![CDATA[McHenry County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Sampson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newton County]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Antonio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Timothy Shack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbados]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Celexa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago O'Hare International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diflucan]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Town Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Physicians for Human Rights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guatemala]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mexican Drug Gangs Suspected in Another Police Slaying ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051003071.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051003071.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, May 10 -- The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marina Montemayor]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mexican]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suspected]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Another]]></category><category><![CDATA[Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slaying]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ciudad Juarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juan Antonio Roman Garcia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Felipe Calderon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Reyes Ferriz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joaquin Guzman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juarez Cartel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sinaloa Cartel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chihuahua State]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If You Don't Show Up, Everybody Talks About You ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902561.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902561.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The New York Times has been taking hits of late for its new policy of boycotting the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The Times apparently has decided that the media-politician chumminess is unseemly and maybe even borderline unethical.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214448460" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214448460" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Al Kamen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Everybody]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talks]]></category><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[You]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Ferguson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Feith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bureau of Land Management]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Condoleezza Rice]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hussein Haqqani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Correspondents' Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ciudad Juarez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henri R. Bisson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayson Blair]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judith Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Kimmitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martha Raddatz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Wolfowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard R. Medina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona Daily Star]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blames Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional Quarterly Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Counterterrorism Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Sun One SL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Interior]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tracks of Time ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302931.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302931.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "WHERE YOU TWO GUYS GOIN'?" a U.S. Border Patrol agent wants to know. The shotgun propped up in the front seat of his cruiser says we better have a pretty good answer. Which we don't. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Thomas]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tracks]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcos Ortiz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rio Grande]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Angelo]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Cruces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loraine Corprew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brownwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Burnham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marty Robbins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Bean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Thayer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aaron O'Donnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abbott Thayer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alta Loma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dryden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Worth]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Omaha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oscar Lopez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rock Hudson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Santa Fe]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waylon Jennings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Willie Nelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amtrak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big Bend National Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gage Hotel]]></category><category><![CDATA[GMC Sierra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hotel Paisano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land Rover Group Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pecos River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smithsonian American Art Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Station]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaza Strip]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Researchers Fear Southern Fence Will Endanger Species Further ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041900942.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041900942.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TUCSON -- The debate over the fence the United States is building along its southern border has focused largely on the project's costs, feasibility and how well it will curb illegal immigration. But one of its most lasting impacts may well be on the animals and vegetation that make this politically fraught landscape their home. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Researchers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Endanger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Species]]></category><category><![CDATA[Further]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Kudwa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Healy Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rio Grande Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allison Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian P. Segee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defenders of Wildlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Tuggle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Hirsche]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Merritt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rio Grande]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rurik List]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Biodiversity Research and Information]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Wall of China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Ecology]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Autonomous University of Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Wildlife Refuge Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Environmental Laws to Be Waived for Fence ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040101026.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040101026.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration will waive more than 30 environmental and land-management laws in order to finish building 470 miles of border fence in the Southwest by the end of the year, officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laws]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waived]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Homeland Security Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[James L. Connaughton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rodger Schlickeisen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Defenders of Wildlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bennie Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sierra Club]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Anti-Terrorism Efforts Hailed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030601435.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030601435.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Islamic extremists have been targeting Europe instead of the United States because the Bush administration has made a domestic attack much more difficult through improvements in U.S. traveler screening and border security, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214450789" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214450789" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu and William Branigin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Anti-Terrorism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Efforts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hailed]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[DAR Constitution Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category><category><![CDATA[London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DHS Strains As Goals, Mandates Go Unmet ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503664.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030503664.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strains]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goals,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mandates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Go]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unmet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judd Gregg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael P. Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[DP World]]></category><category><![CDATA[C. Stewart Verdery Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Foresman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hal Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O. Sabo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Knocke]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703747.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703747.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has scaled back plans to quickly build a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border, delaying completion of the first phase of the project by at least three years and shifting away from a network of tower-mounted sensors and surveillance gear, federal officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Virtual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence']]></category><category><![CDATA[Along]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delayed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard M. Stana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deborah Bosick]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory L. Giddens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yuma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ ID Rules To Change For Canada Crossings ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012101961.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012101961.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Defying Congress, the Department of Homeland Security is pushing to tighten identification requirements at U.S. land borders starting Jan. 31, when it no longer will allow Americans or Canadians to enter the country by presenting a driver's license or declaring their citizenship. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[ID]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crossings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Reynolds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Conference Board of Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travel Industry Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mexico Calls U.S. Border Fence Severe Threat to Environment ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502272.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502272.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15 -- Plans to extend the U.S. fence along the Mexican border are "medieval" and would severely damage the environment, threatening hundreds of plant species and animals, such as Mexican gray wolves, black bears and jaguars, according to a Mexican government report released Thursday.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451153" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451153" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Manuel Roig-Franzia]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calls]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Severe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Threat]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Berlin Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exequiel Ezcurra]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great Wall of China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miguel de la Madrid]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rafael Elvira Quesada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego Natural History Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Border Security Falls Short In Audit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110502067.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/05/AR2007110502067.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers failed to stop roughly 1 in 10 illegal immigrants and serious drug and weapons violators from entering the United States through airports and official land border crossings last year, according to a new congressional review. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Short]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jayson P. Ahern]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Akaka]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doris Meissner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration and Naturalization Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush's 'Virtual Fence' Faces Trouble, Delays ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502138.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092502138.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Technical and management troubles have caused the government's effort to secure a portion of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border with a chain of surveillance towers to fall behind schedule, jeopardizing the success of a costly project meant to showcase the Bush administration's tougher stance on immigration enforcement. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu and Dana Hedgpeth]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush's]]></category><category><![CDATA['Virtual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence']]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trouble,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delays]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Chertoff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory L. Giddens]]></category><category><![CDATA[James A. Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Albaugh]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Carafano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Heritage Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Appropriations]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Border Boondoggle ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101464.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/31/AR2007083101464.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Border Patrol has just unveiled a total makeover of its traditional uniform. Shiny badges and other emblems of law enforcement are out. Our frontier troops will now have a look more in keeping with their role as frontier troops, with lightweight fatigues and better weapons. Agent Ramon Ramirez told the Associated Press that the new garb looks more military, "like you mean business." ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Cockburn]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boondoggle]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Border Crackdown Has El Paso Caught in Middle ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082002022.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/20/AR2007082002022.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ EL PASO -- Leaders of this sunny desert city peppered Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff during a recent visit with complaints about trade-crimping border-crossing delays, unwanted calls to enlist local police in enforcing immigration laws and recent deaths of immigrants at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451438" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451438" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crackdown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Has]]></category><category><![CDATA[El]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paso]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caught]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Illegal Crops Creep Into the Suburbs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/04/AR2007080401388.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/04/AR2007080401388.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BARRINGTON, Ill. -- This town of 10,000 in the northwest Chicago suburbs is home to upscale subdivisions, one of the wealthiest Zip codes in the country, and borders a leafy forest preserve popular with bird-watchers, hikers and runners. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kari Lydersen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crops]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creep]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suburbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ New U.S. Passport Rules Postponed for at Least Six Months ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062001380.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062001380.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration yesterday postponed for at least six months a new security rule that Americans show a passport when crossing U.S. borders by land or by sea, requiring instead that citizens present an identity card and proof of citizenship upon entry for the first time, beginning Jan. 31. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu  and William Branigin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[Postponed]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Least]]></category><category><![CDATA[Six]]></category><category><![CDATA[Months]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Texas, Frustration Over Senate Impasse ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001357.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001357.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WESLACO, Tex. -- On the front line of securing the nation's borders, the day after the collapse of a major overhaul of the nation's immigration laws was business as usual -- but better. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Moreno]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frustration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Impasse]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cops, Coyotes and the Politics of Stupidity ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502036.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR2007052502036.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most cutting-edge domestic issue facing the United States today is the crisis of illegal immigration. The outrage of open borders has led to the current invasion -- something never before seen in U.S. history, something that could mean the end of our American way of life. You can be compassionate, but you need to stand firm.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451850" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214451850" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Luis Alberto Urrea]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cops,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coyotes]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Shadow Wolves' Prowl the U.S.-Mexico Border ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050500771.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050500771.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION, ARIZ. -- In an era of unmanned drones, night-vision goggles and wireless sensors, Sloan Satepauhoodle scours the desert along the Mexican border for drug smugglers in the old ways. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Moreno]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Shadow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wolves']]></category><category><![CDATA[Prowl]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.-Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Plans To Ease Rule on Passports ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201063.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022201063.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TORONTO, Feb. 22 -- The United States plans to ease passport requirements for teenagers and children crossing from Canada into the United States,  in an attempt to defuse complaints that new security rules will throttle cross-border visitation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doug Struck]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plans]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ease]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rule]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passports]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Travel Security Rules  Take Effect Smoothly ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301276.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301276.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Passengers experienced  few difficulties yesterday as new border security rules went into effect requiring citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and some Caribbean islands to present a passport when entering the United States by air, officials said. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[N.C. Aizenman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category><category><![CDATA[Take]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smoothly]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Canadians Fear Fallout Of U.S. Passport Rules ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201926.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011201926.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TORONTO, Jan. 12 -- Canadian and U.S. citizens are lining up for passports to meet tougher U.S. border rules that take effect this month, and Canadian authorities fear the rules will keep more Americans at home.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214452234" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214452234" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Doug Struck]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Canadians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fallout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Chairman's Turf ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301904.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301904.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ EL PASO Silvestre Reyes is straight out of Border Country, that place of lawmen and bandits, pluck and luck. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Montgomery]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chairman's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turf]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DHS Plan for 'Virtual' Border Fence Still Has Gaps ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401153.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401153.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Bush administration plan to build a "virtual" fence along the Mexico border will cost $7.6 billion and be completed by 2011, but the government lacks clear benchmarks for success, according to a report to Congress by the Department of Homeland Security. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA['Virtual']]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Has]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaps]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ DHS Watchdog Warns 'Fence' Cost Will Grow ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501373.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/15/AR2006111501373.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration's proposal to secure the nation's borders with a high-tech "virtual fence" is likely to cost far more than the $2 billion that industry analysts initially estimated, possibly up to $30 billion, a government watchdog agency warned yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu and Griff Witte]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[DHS]]></category><category><![CDATA[Watchdog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warns]]></category><category><![CDATA['Fence']]></category><category><![CDATA[Cost]]></category><category><![CDATA[Will]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grow]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ War and Security Lead Issues in 8th ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110101302.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110101302.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a campaign that has centered on such issues as the Iraq war, U.S.-Mexico border security and transportation, U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D) faces two challengers in his quest for a ninth term in Virginia's 8th District.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214455710" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214455710" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Annie Gowen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[8th]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Immigration Arrests Down 8% for Year ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001025.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001025.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 8 percent fewer illegal immigrants last fiscal year than the year before, reversing a two-year increase in the historically volatile benchmark, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrests]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[8%]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Signs Bill Authorizing 700-Mile Fence for Border ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102600120.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102600120.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WARREN, Mich., Oct. 26 -- President Bush signed a measure Thursday authorizing the construction of a fence along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, an action that conflicts with his own stated vision of immigration reform but one championed by many Republicans facing reelection in November. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael A. Fletcher and Jonathan Weisman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Authorizing]]></category><category><![CDATA[700-Mile]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Allen, Webb Are Not Spotlighting Their Positions on Immigration ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001642.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001642.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Millions of protesters took to the streets this year to demand amnesty for unauthorized immigrants. Congress debated immigration bills for months before approving a 700-mile border fence. In several fiercely contested political races nationwide, illegal immigration has taken center stage. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Brulliard]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Allen,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotlighting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Their]]></category><category><![CDATA[Positions]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901006.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901006.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CALEXICO, Calif. -- Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople, law enforcement officials, environmentalists and U.S. Border Patrol agents as a one-size-fits-all policy response to the nettlesome task of securing the nation's borders.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214457574" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214457574" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Pomfret]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Border Fence's Path, Congressional Roadblocks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501935.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501935.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 700-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexico border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Path,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roadblocks]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ With Senate Vote, Congress Passes Border Fence Bill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901912.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901912.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Senate gave final approval last night to legislation authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, shelving President Bush's vision of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in favor of a vast barrier. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Homeland Security Bill Is More Style Than Substance, Analysts Say ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300909.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300909.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Eager to showcase fresh votes on national security before the fall elections, Congress has loaded a $34 billion homeland security spending bill with measures to beef up defenses at the nation's borders, ports and chemical plants and to revamp its disaster management. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Homeland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Style]]></category><category><![CDATA[Than]]></category><category><![CDATA[Substance,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Analysts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Plenty of Holes Seen In a 'Virtual Fence' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092002049.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092002049.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The selection of Boeing Co. to erect a "virtual fence" along 6,000 miles of U.S. border marks a potential turning point in the government's long quest to stop illegal immigration, but its success hinges on overcoming obstacles that doomed past efforts, funding shortages and other problems with the country's immigration controls, according to experts and former U.S. officials.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214458086" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214458086" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer S. Hsu and Griff Witte]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Plenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Holes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seen]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA['Virtual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fence']]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Boeing Wins Deal For Border Security ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901715.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901715.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Aerospace and defense giant Boeing Co. has won a multibillion-dollar contract to revamp how the United States guards about 6,000 miles of border in an attempt to curb illegal immigration, congressional sources said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Griff Witte]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Boeing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deal]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Poor Yield For Afghans' War on Drugs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801282.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801282.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan -- The grim-faced man in gray prison pajamas sat on a metal chair Saturday, listening silently while judges and lawyers debated whether he had known about the 37 pounds of heroin found hidden in the car he was driving cross-country to a city near the Iranian border. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Constable]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yield]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghans']]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drugs]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Border Crackdown Intensifies, A Tribe Is Caught in the Crossfire ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401827.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/14/AR2006091401827.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ALIR JEGK, Ariz. -- Elsie Salsido was breast-feeding her baby when Border Patrol agents walked into her house unannounced this summer. "Are you Mexicans?" they demanded. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Pomfret]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Border]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crackdown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intensifies,]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tribe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Caught]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crossfire]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Young Migrants Risk All to Reach U.S. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700771.html?nav=rss_world</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/27/AR2006082700771.html?nav=rss_world</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ QUETZALTENANGO, Guatemala -- Across Central America, growing numbers of impoverished children appear to be setting out for the United States on their own, risking robbery, rape and death as they try to sneak illegally through Mexico and across the U.S. border.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214458827" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=23214458827" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[N.C. Aizenman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Migrants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category><category><![CDATA[All]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reach]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
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