In 1986, the San Diego sector recorded its highest number of border crossing apprehensions in a year: 628,000, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics.
Maracaibo, which is close to the border of Colombia, has long battled unsuccessfully with rampant crime, including a high number of murders, kidnappings and contraband along the border.
Pyongyang is said to have told the military that Seoul's spy agency is behind the unseasonably high number of snakes in Ryanggang province, which borders China.
On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would waive environmental impact assessment requirements for a construction project in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, the sector that currently sees the highest number of illegal border crossings.
But there's no unusual crisis at the border other than a high number of Central American families and children, who hardly present a security threat.
The small health center of Polykastro has often made appeals for dressings and sutures, since there was a high number of victims brought back almost daily from the border of Macedonia.
Austria has repeatedly accused Greece of failing to police its borders properly and allowing an excessively high number of people to continue their journey northwards to western Europe.
In recent months, an unusually high number of Vive residents without anchor relatives in Canada have been disappearing at night, running off to cross the border illegally.
The blue borders are drawn around statistically significant "cold spots"—areas where there is a particularly high number of low ratings.
Maputo, 11 April 2013 - A high number of people in our locality have no form of identification, says Veriato Eduardo, an administrator in Angonia in Northwestern Mozambique near the Malawi border.
