The customs authority has speeded up too, and the natural-disasters agency has been reorganised.

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The FBI collected evidence by providing Guido Antonini Wilson, whose bag carrying the money was confiscated by the Argentine customs authority after he landed in Buenos Aires in a plane accompanied by high officers of the Kirchner government.

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Sonnier also said the decision highlights the need to make trademark counterfeiting a crime in Canada and to grant Customs officers in Canada ex-officio authority to seize counterfeit goods at the border.

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Agencies participating in the drill also included the FBI, Customs and Border Patrol, the Port of Houston Authority and local police.

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This authority supersedes common readings of the Constitution, the law and the customs of governance in America.

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