Also this week, the Obama administration named a former Justice Department official as so-called border czar.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

It would recognize the Rio Grande River as the southern border of Texas.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

But it did not have the money. Slidell was to offer to pay these claims if Mexico would accept the Rio Grande River as the border between Texas and Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Many gardeners grow curly parsley as a border for flowerbeds.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Napolitano says she anticipates that the Obama administration will announce further efforts to secure the border as the situation develops.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

And Turkey acts as a buffer on Iran's border from the encroachment of Western NATO powers and to some extent Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Ambassador Sarukhan praised the flurry of consultations between the two countries, as well as the boost in U.S.personnel along the border.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

Other gun owners openly showed their weapons as they stood at the border of Washington on Virginia ground.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

Tensions soared Tuesday when a Lebanese sniper killed a senior Israeli officer as Israeli forces pruned trees in a disputed border area.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"It is wide open." His group has been criticized as racist,but Spencer says this has nothing to do with race, only with border security.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Alan Bersin worked at the Justice Department in the 1990s and led a government crackdown on illegal immigrants at the California-Mexico border, known as Operation Gatekeeper.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

As U.S.Marines continued their new offensive across the Pakistani border in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, militants targeted a military base in the east with a truck bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.07.04

The debate about strategy and troop strength is occurring as 30,000 Pakistani troops are launching a massive military operation in South Waziristan, along the border with Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

He acknowledged that the situation today is serious with threats emanating from insurgents inside Afghanistan as well as from across the border in the mountains of Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

U.S.and Afghan officials say those same areas act as Taliban and al-Qaida safe havens for cross-border attacks, making them a crucial part of the Afghan insurgency's resiliency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

He says it is an all-out shutdown. Regularly scheduled tours of South Korea's side of the heavily armed inter-Korean border were abruptly curtailed Thursday after the North's announcement came out, as a safety precaution.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

As part of the new strategy, Napolitano says the United States will double the number of border security teams, and will quadruple the number of border liaison officers who work with Mexican officials.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

And I am committed to working with President Calderon to promote the kind of bottom-up economic growth here in Mexico that will allow people , and as a consequence will relieve some of the pressure border,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Inaugurating a rail link in Indian Kashmir's Anantnag district, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India and Pakistan can talk on a range of issues such as trade, and easing of travel procedures for families living across the Himalayan region's divided border.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Prosecutors say he led members of Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of the country's Mr.Taylor's lawyers maintain that any contact their client had with Sierra Leonean rebels ended before the jurisdiction of this court begins.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

I don't want to be an alarmist here." "But the one thing that is very important is that as the ISAF (NATO) forces operate in the areas near the Pakistan border, that the impact on Pakistan be taken into account at all times and that the Pakistani security forces are properly aware of what the military actions are so they can do what is necessary to protect your border,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.04