They were detained late on Sunday while trying to cross the border with Kenya, he added.
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It is now harder to cross the border into the United States, and also more expensive.
Trucks would be allowed to cross the border only at crossings where inspectors are on duty.
No flights operate between the two capitals and citizens of both countries require visas to cross the border.
In normal times, there would be a long line of trucks waiting to cross the border into Iran.
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He was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross the border into India.
The Kuwaiti authorities will not allow reporters to cross the border unless they are accompanied by a military escort.
"It's a reflection of the fact that is has become significantly more difficult to cross the border by land, " he said.
Illegal immigrants are choosing instead to cross the border in Arizona and the wilder parts of the lower Rio Grande valley.
But the Dominican consul general has said he warned the group's leader, Silsby, about trying to cross the border without proper documents.
That means far fewer people are attempting to cross the border illegally.
And statistics collected by Customs and Border Protection reflect a significant reduction in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally.
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Late Friday, CNN Turk military correspondent Kemal Yurteri reported that more than 1, 000 Turkish troops were beginning to cross the border into Iraq.
Dr Lewis said he saw no reason for the eisteddfod to cross the border and said he would not attend if it did.
Eighty South Koreans had applied to cross the border into South Korea on Monday, Kim said, but had not been cleared to do so.
When NAFTA went into effect in 1995, the United States and Mexico agreed on a provision to allow lorries freely to cross the border.
He said he plans to focus on creating better jobs in Mexico so that his people have less of a need to cross the border.
Chavez said the man, whom he did not identify, was arrested five days earlier while illegally trying to cross the border from Colombia into Venezuela.
Kenyan officials said Kenyan navy personnel pursued the attackers in their high-speed boat, engaging in a shootout, but the gang managed to cross the border back into Somalia.
Syria now also stands accused of giving refuge to members of Saddam's regime: several were apparently stopped by coalition forces when trying to cross the border into Syria.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the 2011 figure is a 53% drop from 2008, which it says indicates that fewer people are trying to cross the border.
India desisted from military action only after the US extracted a promise from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that he would not allow Islamic extremists to cross the border into Indian Kashmir.
In addition, its economy has collapsed under the weight of hyperinflation and its health care system is in a shambles, forcing some Zimbabweans to cross the border into South Africa for treatment.
Dozens of EU monitors will be at the crossing for at least the next 12 months, with the final say in any dispute over who and what are allowed to cross the border.
They argue it is just wrong to award legal status to workers who have broken the law, and by so doing you only create more powerful incentives for others to cross the border illegally.
More than 840 South Koreans were set to cross the border Monday to Kaesong, which provides a badly-needed flow of hard currency to a country where many face food shortages, according to Seoul's Unification Ministry.
"The Kenyan public must understand that the impetuous decision by their troops to cross the border into Somalia will not be without severe repercussions, " the group said in a news release in English on Monday.
Without the safety valve of legal visas, making it harder to cross the border has mostly succeeded in encouraging people to stay (rather than cross back and forth) once they make it across the Southwest border.
Although the unprecedented urban displacement provoked by the earthquake has not led to a stampede of Haitians attempting to cross the border to the western side of the island of Hispaniola, it has exposed migrants, particularly women, to new situations of vulnerability which may lead to human trafficking.
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