Meanwhile, at the Gaza-Egypt border, nearly 25 trucks carrying aid and medical supplies were unable to pass through the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, CNN's Karl Penhaul reported.
Supplies for the projects pass across the border and the mines' output will soon return.
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One Chinese newspaper said there had been 20, 000 job losses in Dandong, a border town through which Chinese tourists usually pass on their way to North Korea by train.
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The wild and rugged park, 120km west of San Salvador near the Guatemalan border, is named after a mountain pass that has claimed the life of many a coffee-farmer and mule.
Numerous companies like Exxon (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) are seeking permits to construct these terminals but Cheniere Energy Inc. (LNG) has a facility at Sabine Pass near the Texas Louisiana border that has full permits and could be set for export by as soon as 2016.
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Germans, for instance, have long made it a hobby to drive suitcases of cash over their border to Luxembourg, where banks may not pass on information to foreign tax authorities.
Prior to the 1980s every country ran their own border controls and cars often queued for hours to pass from one country to another while officials checked passports.
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President Barack Obama has urged Congress to pass immigration reform this year, and border security is critical to McCain and other Republicans who contend that some areas along the border are far from secure.
The governor of the Afghan province of Nangarhar said that several Pakistani border checkpoints were torn down just south of the Khyber Pass.
He also urged Congress to pass legislation that would create opportunity zones in the border region.
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They argue that any border-security measures included in the bill will never come to pass.
While police try to send the migrants back, officials from other branches of Mexico's government patrol the border to help advise the migrants of their human rights as they pass through the country.
"If in fact the American people can't trust that the border is controlled, you're never going to be able to pass this bill, " declared Sen.
He also backed an effort to pass an amendment to the Michigan constitution requiring a statewide vote on any new border crossing.
In other words, House Republicans, who seem essential for an immigration reform bill to pass, will probably turn out to be more accountable to conservative voters concerned about border security than reformers seeking to create a path to citizenship.
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The 2012 election results demonstrated that to achieve high-skilled reform, we must pass a comprehensive package that also creates a path to citizenship for undocumented workers, strengthens border security, and cracks down on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers.
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