Not only did they sacrifice funding for border policing; they also lost a guest-worker programme that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of legal grunts into the country each year.

他们不但没有得到边防警戒的增加预算，他们还失去了客工计划，即那每年准许上万人合法进入美国打工的计划。

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Mr McCausland said that the outcome of the development by cross-border funding of a 12km stretch of canal between Clones and Upper Lough Erne would be clearer when it was completed in 2013.

BBC: Adjournment debate: Ulster Canal

President BUSH: To secure our border we're doubling the size of the Border Patrol and funding new infrastructure and technology.

NPR: Fact-Checking the State of the Union Speech

On the U.S. side of the border, more funding will support "prosecutor-led, intelligence-based task forces" that bring together the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies to dismantle drug cartels through investigation and extradition and the seizure and forfeiture of assets, Deputy Attorney General David Ogden said.

CNN: Obama to beef up Mexico border policy