To measure border security, a commission would be created with the task of establishing and assessing a set of quantifiable criteria.

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In return, the army has accepted a supreme court decision creating a large Indian reserve on Brazil's northern border, a measure it had previously opposed.

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Iraqi security forces have increased their military and security presence at the border in Anbar as a precautionary measure, the official said.

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The measure would include procedures for border security and stronger employer sanctions, as well as a new emphasis on legal immigrants who rely on work visas as opposed to family visas.

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Indeed, he added insult to injury last January by refusing to implement a similar measure meant to free cross-border commercial bus runs.

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In the border-city stores you could get a rough measure of each country's creative potential.

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Mr. Shakmak said he had no knowledge of a particular threat to Libya, but said Tripoli was sending more troops to the border and to desert oil fields, and boosting communications capacity, as a precautionary measure in response to the Algeria attack.

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By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.

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She has pushed for strong border enforcement but been a vocal critic of her state's popular but controversial new immigration law, calling the measure divisive and ineffective.

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