Sentence examples for border cops from inspiring English sources

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You can use it to describe police who protect international borders, such as US Border Patrol agents. For example: "The border cops stopped the car and asked for identification."

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Border cops have naturally claimed credit for the drop.

Many of them, official statisticians believe, were probably foreign students—like those chucked out of London Metropolitan University this week after its dust-up with the border cops.

"The federal government is spending millions of dollars for border guards, but the city of Phoenix is paying to help these workers," says Mel Marcus, whose business faces the Macehualli centre.But for America's border cops chasing undocumented workers is less important than looking for foreign criminals.

The paradox is that the leftover spending, the so-called domestic discretionary functions, is what most Americans tend to think of as "government": border cops, college loans, cancer research, air-traffic controllers, inspectors who make sure the food on the shelves won't poison us, the construction crews that expand highways gripped by gridlock.

* Revenge-minded border cops.

One of the key reasons such shipments are bypassing screening is that border cops have no automated risk-assessment tool.

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In 2000, he was wonderful as the Spanish-speaking Mexican border cop trying to stay on the straight and narrow in Soderbergh's Traffic, and won an Oscar for best supporting actor.

The first of them, Touch of Evil (1958), finds Welles recapturing his inventive brilliance as a filmmaker and turning in one of his finest performances as corrupt border cop Hank Quinlan, a "slag-heap of iniquity", in Callow's gamey phrase.

They just made him a border cop.

She spotted a border cop following her and hit the brakes to slow down.

A border cop pulled us over and interrogated us about where we came from, why we were out and where we were going.

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