The police are also setting up road blocks to check cars and buses for illicit firearms.

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The bill has been to a large extent superseded by a High Court decision which blocks the setting up of the two unitary authorities.

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The setting for this latest hearing was a hotel in downtown Laredo just two blocks from the Mexico border.

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