"It's a reflection of the fact that is has become significantly more difficult to cross the border by land, " he said.
Mr. McNeely says he couldn't provide details and it's unclear if people crossing the border by land would notice the heightened security.
The two countries have also agreed to work together to resolve their land border dispute.
The United States has a 2, 000 mile land border with Mexico, and an equally long maritime border with the island states of the Caribbean.
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Germany, of course, is nearer to Poland than Britain is - it shares a long land border, so migrants can return and spend more easily.
Hundreds of trucks a day clog up the land border between northern Iraq and Turkey as a flow of goods make the journey to Kurdish markets.
In the second quarter of this year 90% of the migrants detected trying to enter the EU illegally were on the Greek land border, Frontex says.
If a country has a long land border, like the United States, or coasts temptingly near poorer countries, like Italy, its best hope is internal enforcement.
And because 80 percent of the trade passes over our land border, we reaffirmed our commitment to a 21st century border that is modern, secure and efficient.
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The UNHCR says tighter border controls at sea, with Mediterranean countries co-ordinating their efforts, have simply shifted the problem of illegal migration to the Greek land border.
Our correspondent says defections across the land border are rare.
India disagrees, preferring a straight line from the land border.
Though El Salvador and Honduras went to the International Court of Justice to settle their land border, all three countries still clash over fishing rights in the Gulf of Fonseca.
The visas would only be available at the Wagah land border crossing near Lahore, and would be issued every day between 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) and 16:00 IST (11:30 GMT).
The Northern Ireland quarry industry had been eligible to be exempt from UK tax on quarried material, due to the disproportionate effect the tax would have because of the land border with the Republic of Ireland.
Its peace policy is now hardly distinguishable from that of Kadima or indeed Meretz: a two-state solution based on the 1967 border, with land swaps and the retention of the bigger Jewish settlement blocks, as outlined by Mr Barak when he was prime minister from 1999-2001.
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To keep the flow of goods and people moving smoothly, we will enhance and expand the work of the twenty land border Binational Port Operations Committees established in 2011, coordinate our border infrastructure investment at key border crossings and at small and remote ports of entry to, where possible, align hours of operation and co-manage facilities.
Most of Nepal's national parks and protected areas are either in the Himalayan region or in the Tarai area, the southern plain land that border India.
It has 4, 000km of land, desert border and 1, 700km of sea, maritime borders.
From there, they were taken by land to the border town of Roszke in southern Hungary where they crossed over into Horgos, Yugoslavia.
By this week about 45, 000 distraught Albanians spent several days in an increasingly squalid patch of no-man's-land at the border without shelter, food or sanitation.
Yes, the children of Israel have returned to "to their own border"- to the Land of Israel-and the long history of Moroccan Jewry is a special part of Israel's unique saga, achieved with much tears, pain, and suffering, but also with joy and hope, and great expectations over the ages.
The Ethiopians have done better, alongside a proxy force of Sufi Somalis known as the Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa (the Majority) or ASWJ, which now controls a wedge of land along the Ethiopian border.
Mr Mitchell's proposed terms of reference for new talks would have both sides accepting the 1967 border as the basis of a final accord, with land swaps enabling Israel to annex the largest settlements closest to the old border, while the Palestinians would add equivalent tracts to their own state.
So his departure could hurt the chances of resolving the Arab-Kurdish dispute over land and oil in the border region around Kirkuk, a city and province which the Kurds say is theirs.
These NGOs proposed that Canada, Australia and some European Union countries take the residents of two smaller camps, one inside Syria and another in a no man's land at the Iraq-Syria border crossing.
In April, almost 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, Russia agreed to demarcate its land (though not its sea) border with Ukraine.
Some 290 miles long and 85 miles wide with a long border on the Mediterranean, it is surrounded on land by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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Just a decade ago, Mexican smugglers worked as mules for Colombians, moving their cocaine by land across the U.S. border when the heat was on in the Caribbean.
In between the two main fences is 150 feet of "no man's land, " an area that the Border Patrol sweeps with flood lights and trucks, and soon, surveillance cameras.
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