Sentence examples for border efforts from inspiring English sources
"I don't know that you need to give up sovereignty to coordinate border efforts," he said, adding that the only reason Canadians can live as they do is because they are sheltered by the might of the United States.
Peter Andreas, author of the book "Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide," called the border efforts a "politically successful policy failure" -- successful at conveying an image of aggressive action, but a failure in deterring either smugglers or migrants.
"We indicated concerns about some of the security threats there, some of it the result of border efforts that have not been sometimes effective at controlling individuals and weapons that have come through," Mr. Panetta said after the talks with Mr. Morsi in Cairo last month.
Obama has committed to speeding up a three-year, $1.4 billion countertrafficking aid program for Mexico; announced plans last month to send 450 more federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border; and last week asked for $350 million as part of a supplemental war-funding bill to support border efforts.
The mission was initially called "Operation Faithful Patriot," but the Pentagon dropped that name after the midterm elections, opting to refer to it as supporting border efforts instead.
The Tucson area, for years the busiest crossing point for illegal immigrants, has served as the testing ground for the federal government's high-technology border effort, although even senior Homeland Security officials acknowledge it got off to a poor start.
"It has been very disruptive to our cross-border efforts — very disruptive," the official said.
The murders in Ciudad Juárez had been a focus of multistate and cross-border efforts for more than a year.
Restrictions include national and cross-border efforts to block the flows of funds to terror groups and banned organisations.
El Tri, meanwhile, has grown into a "marketing juggernaut" thanks in part to the Mexican federation's cross-border efforts and to engaged groups of fans like Pancho Villa's Army.
Borders' efforts were listless at best.
