For instance, a story last week about an injured Marine returning home to the state was mostly bordered by links to stories from the Daily Oklahoman about the war in Iraq.
He also leads The Texas Border Volunteers, a group of mostly border-zone farmers and ranchers who every few months spend two weeks camping out and surveying the thousands of miles of private property near the border for evidence or actual sightings of drug and human traffickers and their routes.
Ghani, too, may be reassessing his options, with some signs that he may turn increasingly to China, which has signalled willingness to take a more active role in Afghanistan, with which it shares a narrow, mostly impassable, border.
But it was one rat in particular, representing the 45,000 mostly Italian border workers employed in the canton, that drew the loudest criticisms to the campaign, "bailaratt," a reference to the Italian version of the saying "while the cat's away, the mice will play".
Arizona also has cause for concern because its long, mostly unpopulated border is difficult to guard and is therefore the site of many illegal crossings, of people and of drugs, particularly as increased enforcement in Texas and California has nudged crossers into the inhospitable Arizona desert.
Since the fall of Mr. Hussein's government, however, bodies from outside Iraq have started trickling in -- a few each month smuggled across the mostly sealed border from Iran, a few from Kuwait, the first anyone can remember from Saudi Arabia since the Persian Gulf war of 1991.
We're constantly hearing about how the federal government needs to cut costs, and even the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said the quota could be easily reduced, yet House Republicans forced an additional $400 million of funding on the agency, mostly for border security and deportation.
But this is mostly a border-town phenomenon, and the numbers are nowhere near as large as the waves of people who came illegally during the peak years of illegal migration, in the '90s and just after 2000.
Located in northern Iraq, the city was historically mostly Arab, bordered on the north and east by traditional Kurdish lands.
His diary entry from the night of the party-that-never-was, dated September 10 , 2001 is mostly illegible, bordered around with cuss words written in red sharpie.
