In some areas, parents have been asked to volunteer as lollipop ladies and men as schools consider how they can keep the crossings going themselves.
Some governors of provinces with lucrative border crossings are positioning themselves for presidential runs, and others are looking to help finance top contenders, they said.
In Wyoming, wildlife crossings will pay for themselves in a matter of just four to five years.
Many African border crossings are a law unto themselves.
But on Sept. 22, amid a surge in Haitians from Brazil, the Obama administration said it was resuming the deportation of Haitians who presented themselves at border crossings without immigration documentation.
The only route to recovery, they say, is for Israel to withdraw from the areas that the Palestinians used to control themselves, and to open the border crossings.Instead, Mr Sharon's solution is to call for huge influxes of relief aid, to keep the Palestinians alive while his tanks remain in their cities, and all movement and trading remain banned.
Enforcement: The use of laws to prosecute those who endanger themselves or others by misuse of crossings.
The Israelis, who control the seaports and border crossings used for Palestinian commerce, collect the import taxes themselves, and transfer the payments monthly to the Palestinian treasury.
The growing closeness between officials in Mexico and Texas was largely attributable to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has made Los Dos Laredos -- as the border cities of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo call themselves -- a choke point for 1.3 million truck crossings last year.
But without crossings, the railway becomes an endless barrier dividing communities, with people finding themselves literally on the wrong side of the tracks.
