The Egyptian authorities resealed their country's border with the Gaza Strip , but failed to persuade Hamas to sign up to a previous agreement whereby Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Fatah, a rival Palestinian group, would oversee the border and crossing point.
Even after we got past the border, my family was arrested and jailed for illegal border crossing.
Talk of Medicaid, language instruction, demographic charts and border crossing obscures the facts, and debaters on both sides tend to forget that immigrants, even the unskilled, contribute to economic growth.
Pew estimates that net migration -- newly arrived immigrants minus those leaving (forced or voluntarily) -- has come to a standstill, which it attributes to the weakened U.S. job and construction markets, border enforcement, an increase in deportations, and increased dangers associated with crossing the border.
Virtual border guards are also being tested, with the US Customs and Border Protection trialling a kiosk at Dennis DeConcini Port in Nogales, Arizona, a border crossing between the US and Mexico.
And on Friday it partially reopened the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, which had been closed since an attack in early December.
More systematic monitoring at border crossing and airports such as mouth swabs has been proposed.
"They have to find a way to close this border crossing and I believe they will, " Baker said.
Then-prime minister Ariel Sharon made a deal with Mubarak to deploy Egyptian forces to the Sinai to rebuild the border and man the crossing point at Rafah.
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The trailblazingly democratic and bourgeois Netherlands never nurtured the border-crossing habits of the kings and nobles whose avidity as collectors survives in the major museums of Paris, London, Vienna, and Madrid.
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.
Nationalist politicians warier of cross-community amity warn that just a few violent incidents caused by the settling of old scores could ruin this budding Greek-Turkish friendship and close the border crossing points again.
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"We will continue to watch over the border and prevent anyone from crossing it and entering Israel except in a few isolated and exceptional circumstances - each of which will be weighed on its own merit, " Mr Netanyahu said.
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And we see beheadings, and we got weapons of mass destruction crossing the border every single day, and they're blowing people up.
The raid comes a week after 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
For instance, if in five years from the bill's enactment all nine segments of the Southwest border aren't 100% secure, and if 90% of those crossing illegally aren't being apprehended, then a Southern Border Security Commission of four governors and six Washington appointees would draft a new security plan.
From 1961 to 1989 it was the best-known border crossing between East and West Berlin.
Dozens of other Syrians and Turks at the border crossing were not so fortunate.
More than a million refugees have fled the fighting, crossing the border and flooding into overloaded camps in neighboring Turkey and Jordan.
Following the Israeli sea-born raid, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered the border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to be opened.
At the West Bank border crossing between Beitunya and Ofer military prison, Palestinian protesters threw rocks while the Israeli military used tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades.
We were even more surprised to see who was running this attraction -- the indigenous Nanu Indians who live near this national park and operate the mock border crossing.
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Mali's army chief General Ibrahima Dahirou Dembele told AFP that Chadian troops would join some 500 Nigeri troops in western Niger with the aim of crossing the border and heading towards the town of Gao, in north-eastern Mali.
More than a dozen Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an August 5 attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
Between 10, 000 and 20, 000 Afghans estimated to be waiting at the Chaman border crossing near Quetta reportedly have left that area and retreated into Afghanistan.
Grass sprouts from the rooftops of tall apartment buildings and lambs can be found grazing on these aerial pastures, the occasional ill-starred creature crossing the border of its tiny world and plummeting into traffic, only to be stolen away almost immediately by a hungry citizen.
Every year dozens of Bangladeshis are shot dead crossing the border, and many others are beaten.
It quotes the foreign ministry as saying that the border crossing between North Korea and China has not been closed.
The road reaches its highest point as it goes past the abandoned border crossing into Spain, and you descend again into a small Mediterranean town.
The visas would only be available at the Wagah land border crossing near Lahore, and would be issued every day between 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) and 16:00 IST (11:30 GMT).
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