He had never been interested in border problems and had taken the border fence for granted.
Twenty years ago, he hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.
Pooja's family lives in a small village in Bikaner district, just 2km (1.2 miles) from the India-Pakistan border fence.
On Wednesday, the Defense Ministry announced that Israel is speeding up construction of the border fence between Egypt and Israel.
Saudi Arabia is building a giant border fence to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen, Saudi border authorities have told the BBC.
McCain also voted to authorize construction of a U.S.-Mexican border fence.
Thousands of Syrians have fled to Turkey in recent months to escape the violence, though they generally cross through the border fence, and not the border gates.
Tancredo has been a leading anti-immigration voice for many years, opposing amnesty for immigrants currently in the U.S. and supporting the construction of the Mexican border fence.
The primary complaint driving this move: construction of a border fence would cut off cross-border populations of the same endangered jaguar and ocelot species from breeding with one another.
Some Labour members have joined the small but growing cross-party ginger-group that advocates unilateral Israeli withdrawal from most of the territories, and the construction of a strongly defended border fence.
In this slice of Tijuana, you could listen to plaintive songs about life on the border and catch a breeze off the Pacific Ocean, while saltwater eats away at the ragged border fence on the shore.
Wild boar that have lost legs to landmines can be seen hobbling out from the forests, and when two gorals face each other from either side of the border fence it is hard to tell which one is in the safest area.
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Another item is finishing a border fence whose half-existence is the worst of both worlds: Its missing sections do not eradicate the negative symbolism of a barrier, but they do steer unlawful border jumpers toward the most dangerous parts of the desert.
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Both Clinton and Obama voted to authorize President Bush to build a border fence between the United States and Mexico -- but both said Thursday they would consult with leaders in border areas about where fencing is needed and where other methods could be used to secure the borders.
The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife have since appealed the case directly to the Supreme Court, because the REAL ID Act -- again, in the interest of expediting border fence construction -- eliminated the option of appealing district court decisions on the DHS waiver to any of the federal appellate courts, making direct appeal to the Supreme Court the only legal option left.
Back in 1996, Congress had authorized the construction of a border security fence along the southwestern border to deter illegal crossings.
He drives a vintage Cadillac and inserts 1950s doo-wop tunes into his build-a-border-fence fulminations.
An amendment reducing the number of guest-worker visas from 325, 000 a year to 200, 000 passed handily, as did another promising 370 miles of fence along the border.
The most virulent opposition to reform came from Republican House members who were obsessed with cracking down on illegals and building a 700-mile (1, 125km) fence along the border with Mexico.
Rancher Carol Kimsey, who lives in a valley near the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.-side of the fence, says the border barrier has improved the quality of life in the area.
Greece has announced plans to build a 12km (eight-mile) fence along part of its border with Turkey to keep illegal migrants out.
Mr. DICKSON: You look down at the border and now there's a fence about two miles long with lights every 50 yards, and so forth.
He met with the President of Mexico to try to discuss ways to do something better with the border then to turn it into a fence.
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Most Democrats opposed the plan to fence long stretches of the southern border approved by the outgoing Republican Congress.
Minutemen like Al Garza say they agree with much of what's in the House bill, which calls for employer sanctions and tighter border security, including a 700-mile fence.
For those that can remember, the contract, which named Boeing as a prime contractor to build a security fence on the US- Mexico border, was terminated in 2011, because it was considered to be too expensive and ineffective.
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That leaves the new fence as the dominant feature along the border.
Deploying unmanned aerial vehicles that now patrol the border from Texas to California, and a fence that was demanded back in 2007 is now basically complete.
But there are people who say let's have work visas, let's have a fence, let's have an open border.
Already a sand-bank, a trench and an electrified fence guard the 200-kilometre-long border.
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