They were detained late on Sunday while trying to cross the border with Kenya, he added.
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It is now harder to cross the border into the United States, and also more expensive.
Trucks would be allowed to cross the border only at crossings where inspectors are on duty.
During the last decade, millions of people have continued to cross the border illegally mostly in Arizona.
No flights operate between the two capitals and citizens of both countries require visas to cross the border.
The Turks have also permitted shipments of weapons and ammunition to cross the border to rebels inside Syria.
In normal times, there would be a long line of trucks waiting to cross the border into Iran.
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He was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross the border into India.
The Kuwaiti authorities will not allow reporters to cross the border unless they are accompanied by a military escort.
But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad didn't order the rioters to cross the border.
"It's a reflection of the fact that is has become significantly more difficult to cross the border by land, " he said.
Illegal immigrants are choosing instead to cross the border in Arizona and the wilder parts of the lower Rio Grande valley.
But the Dominican consul general has said he warned the group's leader, Silsby, about trying to cross the border without proper documents.
That means far fewer people are attempting to cross the border illegally.
And statistics collected by Customs and Border Protection reflect a significant reduction in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally.
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Late Friday, CNN Turk military correspondent Kemal Yurteri reported that more than 1, 000 Turkish troops were beginning to cross the border into Iraq.
Dr Lewis said he saw no reason for the eisteddfod to cross the border and said he would not attend if it did.
On two occasions since then Pakistani troops are reported to have fired warning shots to thwart US forces trying to cross the border.
Eighty South Koreans had applied to cross the border into South Korea on Monday, Kim said, but had not been cleared to do so.
When NAFTA went into effect in 1995, the United States and Mexico agreed on a provision to allow lorries freely to cross the border.
He said he plans to focus on creating better jobs in Mexico so that his people have less of a need to cross the border.
Tens of billions of dollars in drug money is believed to cross the border heading south each year, much of it in bulk cash shipments.
We tried to cross the border into Iran illegally but we were captured in the middle of the night and sent to a refugee camp.
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Chavez said the man, whom he did not identify, was arrested five days earlier while illegally trying to cross the border from Colombia into Venezuela.
Shortly after the demonstrations began, operatives from the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood branch in Gaza - that is Hamas - knew to cross the border into Sinai.
Some people brave harassment and shooting to cross the border into China to earn hard currency (many North Koreans, especially black-market traders, cross and recross into China).
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Kenyan officials said Kenyan navy personnel pursued the attackers in their high-speed boat, engaging in a shootout, but the gang managed to cross the border back into Somalia.
Syria now also stands accused of giving refuge to members of Saddam's regime: several were apparently stopped by coalition forces when trying to cross the border into Syria.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the 2011 figure is a 53% drop from 2008, which it says indicates that fewer people are trying to cross the border.
Advocates say that a no-fly zone would allow them to cross the border into rebel-held territory, where Western governments could channel money through them, enabling them to begin to govern.
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