To try to prevent security worries clogging cross-border trade, American customs officials may be posted throughout Mexico.
Over the last seven years, Manning says, she's learned a lot from the refugees and finds herself looking at American customs from a new perspective.
On the one hand, it created a much larger audience for modern art and even led to a change in American customs laws making contemporary art easier to import.
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More than half of Americans, in a recent poll for the respected Pew Charitable Trust, found more than half believe immigrants strengthen the country, though 43% say they undermine American customs and traditions.
It was in Mexico too that Eisenstein produced some of his strangest and most disconcerting work a series of blasphemous, sado-masochistic and homo-erotic drawings, a crateful of which were seized by American customs when he left Mexico.
But there is no doubt that the situation along the border is very sensitive politically, and although the White House may wonder privately whether there is some corruption among some American customs, immigration and police officials, it is unlikely to admit it publicly.
Before Moore's poem, American Christmas customs were in the European tradition.
And even though most Europeans say they like America, between half (in Britain) and three-quarters (in France) also say the spread of American ideas and customs is bad.
Recalling a trip with American colleagues to Singapore a decade ago, Zhu says he was stopped and asked to wait for an hour at customs while his American colleagues were given a quick OK to pass through.
George Soros, the Hungarian-born American financier, has proposed a regional customs union for the Balkans, with currencies pegged to the euro.
This comes as a relief to Intermarine, the owner of the ship, as well as for the 15-man all-American crew who had been stuck in limbo since August 29 when Venezuelan customs officials discovered a handful of weapons on board.
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The company allegedly violated the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing Argentine customs officials responsible for approving the entrance of the company merchandise into the South American nation.
American agents notified Mexican authorities to search their side of the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement last December.
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