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18 November 2007

US Army Corps of Engineers Secure Fence Act border projects: https://ecso.swf.usace.army.mil/Pages/Publicreview.cfm https://ecso.swf.usace.army.mil/PublicReview/Santa%20Teresa%20Revised%20Draft%20EA%208-29-07.pdf [162 pp, 36MB] Proposed OBP Santa Teresa Station Aesthetic Fence, Office of Border Patrol, El Paso Sector, Santa Teresa, New Mexico September 2007 [Excerpts] Office of Border Patrol (OBP) is a law enforcement entity of United States (U.S.) Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OBP’s priority mission is to prevent the entry of terrorists and terrorist weapons and to enforce the laws that protect the U.S. homeland by the detection, interdiction, and apprehension of those who attempt to illegally enter or smuggle any person or contraband across the sovereign borders of the U.S. During recent years, illegal aliens (IA) and illegal entry into the U.S. along the U.S.-Mexico border in southern New Mexico has been a problem. Consequently, OBP has significantly increased its emphasis on deterrence. Deterrence is achieved only when OBP has the ability to create and convey the immediate, credible, and absolute certainty of detection and apprehension. As such, tactical infrastructure components, such as fencing and roads, are a critical element in the current enforcement strategy. Developing trends, such as the recognition of environmental preservation concerns and the increase of criminal trans-boundary activities (including trafficking in people, drugs, and terrorism efforts), continue to pose a border enforcement challenge and support the need for tactical infrastructure along the international border. The purpose of the proposed fence is to help CBP agents and officers gain effective control of our nation’s borders. CBP is developing and deploying the most effective mix of proven technology, infrastructure, and increased personnel. In some locations, fence is a critical element of border security. In alignment with Federal mandates, including the provisions of the SFA, OBP has identified this area of the border as a location where fence would contribute significantly to our priority homeland security mission.
AP Photos and Captions
** TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED MURO TIERRA DE NADIE ** Gloria Garza stands next to a "No Borderwall" sign on her fence in Granjeno, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. A proposed border fence would effect about 35 homes in the two square mile city along the border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)	An armed East Berlin policeman watches as East Berliners load furniture inside a moving van during evacuation by Communist authorities of residents whose homes are near the East-West border. They are at the French-Russian border sector near the Schoenholz section of the divided city on Sept. 26, 1961. (AP Photo/Kreusch)
** TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED MURO TIERRA DE NADIE ** An International Boundary & Water Commission sign is posted in Granjeno, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. A proposed border fence could cut through property of about 35 homes in the two square mile city along the border with Mexico (AP Photo/Eric Gay)	West Berliners, at right, talk with East Berlin policemen through the barbed wire fence at the border in Germany in Sept. 1961. Other Communist officers bring new posts to reinforce the barrier in East Berlin's Wildenbruchstrasse. A cement block wall and additional barbed wire fence mark the border in the background, cutting a tragic dividing line through the heart of the city. (AP Photo)
Rep. Phil English, R-Pa., right, accompanied by Republican Presidential hopeful, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., points at a photo of the U.S. border fence during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, to discuss the use of Chinese steel products on the fence. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh)	Businessman and land owner Noel Benavides looks over to Mexico and the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007. Benavides will likely lose a mile of river front property that has been in his family since the Spanish deeded the land in 1767, a result of the U.S. government's effort to secure the Mexican border with a steel fence. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
** FILE ** Nine 98-foot towers laden with radar, sensors and sophisticated cameras, such as this one west of Arivaca, Ariz., seen on April 27, 2007, have been built across 28 miles close to the Arizona-Mexico border near Sasabe, southwest of Tucson, in an area heavily trafficked by illegal immigrant and drug smugglers. Because of a continuing software glitch, the nation's first high-tech "virtual fence" remains unused, three months after its scheduled debut. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says more testing is expected by early October. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, David Sanders) ** MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES **	A group containing republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney peruse a portion of the new border fence separating the United States from Mexico from an area known as Russian Hill during a visit Monday Aug. 13, 2007 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent in the vehicle at right is stationed along the fence line east of downtown El Paso on Monday, Aug. 6, 2007. The Rio Grande, which marks the border between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, is at center, and the American canal is at left, parallel to the river. (AP Photo/ Victor Calzada)	U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol between the primary and secondary border fences along the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, May 22, 2007. A bill drafted by a bipartisan group in Congress and backed by the White House calls for tightening border security, granting legal status to nearly all estimated 12 million undocumented workers, and increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal workers in the United States. (AP Photo/David Maung)
A new border fence is seen at the zone known as El Bajio, in Sasabe, Ariz., Wednesday, May 23, 2007. El Bajio is one of the immigrants busiest crossing points. Democrats are seeking to slash the number of foreign workers who could come to the U.S. with temporary working visas Wednesday as the US Senate prepares for another day of freewheeling debate over a bipartisan immigration measure. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)	A man works on the construction of the U.S. - Mexico border fence dividing Nogales, Arizona, right, and Nogales, Mexico, Tuesday, May 22, 2007. A bill drafted by a bipartisan group in Congress and backed by the White House, calls for tightening border security, granting legal status to nearly all estimated 12 million undocumented workers, and increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal workers on the United States. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
National Guardsmen weld a section of wall being erected along the international border that separates San Luis, Mexico, and San Luis, Ariz., Wednesday, May 30, 2007. The troops are part of Operation Jump Start, President Bush's initiative to have guardsmen work in support of Border Patrol efforts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. (AP Photo/Matt York)	Crews work on the construction of the border fence dividing the U.S. and Mexico in Nogales, Arizona, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, as seen from Nogales, Mexico. A bill drafted by a bipartisan group in Congress and backed by the White House calls for the tightening of border security, granting legal status to nearly all estimated 12 million undocumented workers, and increasing penalties for employers who hire illegal workers on the United States. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
A sign at the Sabal Palm Audubon Center near Brownsville, Texas, May 10, 2007, reminds visitors to avoid area with Border Patrol sensors. Wildlife enthusiasts fear the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge could be ruined by the fences and adjacent roads the U.S. government plans to erect along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and smugglers. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)	A trail marker at the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge near Alamo, Texas, May 9, 2007. Wildlife enthusiasts fear this site could be spoiled by the fences and adjacent roads the U.S. government plans to erect along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants and smugglers. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A U.S. Border Patrol agent questions a man in Nogales, Arizona, seen through a hole in a metal fence marking the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Tuesday, May 22, 2007. The debate on immigration has intensified this week as Congress continues to discuss law reforms. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)	Three Mexican youths, in Anapra, Mexico, are seen in Sunland Park, N.M., while atop the International Border fence Wednesday, April 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt York)
A man reaches through the U.S.-Mexico border fence to hold hands with Gabriela Barrios, right, during a vigil organized by immigrant rights activists in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, May 19, 2007. Barrios' son Oscar Garcia Barrios was killed a year ago by a Border Patrol Agent in San Diego, as he was attempting to flee back to Mexico while driving a car with undocumented migrants. (AP Photo/David Maung)	President Bush, center, tours the site of a new border fence along the U.S-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., Monday, April 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
** FILE ** ** TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED EEUU REPUBLICANOS ** A U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols along the fence line of the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Ariz., on Thursday, April 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)	President Bush's motorcade drives along the fence of the U.S-Mexico border, seen at left, Monday, April 9, 2007, in Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Soldiers from the Arkansas and Kansas National Guard work on a security fence along the Mexican border near Yuma, Ariz., Tuesday, April 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)	** ADVANCE FOR MONDAY FEB. 26 **The International Waste Water Treatment Plant sits next to the U.S. Border fence in Imperial Beach, Calif., with Tijuana, Mexico in the background Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. It's been seven years since the U.S. government agreed to a novel fix to unresolved sewage problems: pay a private developer as much as $750 million to build and manage a wastewater treatment plant in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Tennessee National Guard Sgt 1st Class Andy Kelemer stands near the primary border fence area Friday, March 2, 2007, in Yuma, Ariz. Tennessee soldiers are currently deployed in Arizona as a part of Operation Jumpstart, working in support of Border Patrol efforts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. (AP Photo/John Partipilo, Pool)	An Israeli soldier in the northern Israeli village of Metulla, aims at photographers working in the southern town of Kfar Kila, Lebanon Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. An overnight incident _ sparked by an Israeli bulldozer crossing the border fence _ showed how tense the Israeli-Lebanese frontier remains nearly six months after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire ended 34 days of fighting. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
** FILE ** The U.S.-Mexico border fence stretches 14 miles inland separating San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, in this March 27, 2006, file photo. The homes at left are in Tijuana. This section of fence will become the western-most end of the fence when an additional 700 miles of non-contiguous fencing, which was recently approved by Congress, is erected between California and Texas. With the Democratic Party in control of Congress, Hispanic political activists are preparing for a big push toward reform, which would include repeal of the Secure Fence Act. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)	Young women who had participated in a vigil on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border fence for deceased undocumented migrants chat with a U.S. Border Patrol agent on patrol on the beach next to the wall on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006 in San Diego. The wall is part of a 14-mile primary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico from San Diego and ends at the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/David Maung)
** FILE **A man climbs over the international border into Nogales, Ariz., seen in this Wednesday, May 31, 2006, file photo from Nogales, Mexico. Divided over a border fence, President Bush and Mexico's president-elect pledged Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, to work together on stopping illegal immigration. Felipe Calderon, who takes office on Dec. 1, has called the U.S. plan to build a 700-mile fence along the border "deplorable" and compared it to the construction of the Berlin Wall. After a meeting in the Oval Office, the leaders struck a tone of cooperation. (AP Photo/Matt York)	Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol in the early morning fog along barbwire fence along the India Bangladesh border in Jaipur village near Agartala, capital of India?s northeastern state Tripura, Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. Security along the border has been intensified following Political instability and continuing violence in Bangladesh. India shares over 4,000 kilometers (2500 miles) border with Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Ramakanta Dey)
An Egyptian soldier is seen through a fence as he stands guard on the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Monday, Oct. 30, 2006. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied Monday reports from his own government that about 5,000 Egyptian security police had been deployed along the Gaza Strip border. "This is totally baseless," Mubarak told a group of Egyptian lawmakers of his ruling National Democratic Party.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)	A Pakistani soldier keeps position inside a bunker as he monitors Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Kundi Gar post, some 80kms southwest of Miranshah, the main town of Pakistani tribal region North Waziristan, in this photo taken on Sep. 15, 2005. Pakistan will fence and land mine parts of its border with Afghanistan to prevent cross-border militancy, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
** FILE ** South Korean soldiers patrol along the wire-fence at the southern area near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, in this Oct. 9, 2006 file photo. The South Korean military said Monday, Dec. 4, 2006 that three apparent explosions were heard just north of the inter-Korean border where North Korean troops are stationed. It was not immediately clear what caused the noises.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)	Jeff Reed, co owner of Pepe's on the River bar and grill, looks out along the Rio Grande River, the river that is the border between Mexico and the United States, from the edge of the water along his business in Mission, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006. Reed and other business owners wonder how the building of a wall along the Texas-Mexico border will effect their businesses. (AP Photo/Joel Martinez)
Part of a 700-mile long double layered border fence snakes west toward the San Ysidro Border crossing between Tijuana, Mexico and San Ysidro, Calif., as seen from Arnie's Point on Otay Mesa. The traffic seen in the top-center-right of the photograph is in Mexico. U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., disputes the assertion of some in government who feel the construction of 700-mile border fence on the U.S.-Mexico border is optional. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, John R. McCutchen) ** NO SALES, COMMERCIAL INTERNET OUT, FOREIGN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT , TV OUT, MAGS OUT, NO ARCHIVE **	A newly erected border fence dividing North Korea from the Chinese city of Dandong, northeastern China, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006.China has been building a massive barbed wire and concrete fence along parts of its border with North Korea in the most visible sign of Beijing's strained ties with its once-cozy communist neighbor.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Lebanese troops, right, patrol the Lebanese side of the border fence with Israel, as an Israeli vehicle drives past on the Israeli side, at the Fatima gate, in the southern town of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, days after Israeli forces ended their brief occupation of southern Lebanon. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)	U.N. observers walk on the Lebanese side of the border fence next an Israeli position, background, at the Abbad tomb near the southern village of Houla, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006. The Israeli army abandoned almost all of its positions in Lebanon early Sunday, nearly fulfilling a key condition of the Aug. 14 cease-fire that ended a monthlong war against Hezbollah. The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon hailed the withdrawal of most of the troops and said he expected it to be completed this week. (AP Photo/Samer Wehbi)
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif, holds news conference Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at a location on the U.S. side of border known as Arnie's Point in Otey Mesa, Calif., which overlooks the double layered fence near the U.S.-Mexico border. The two people to Congressman Hunter's right and one to his left are members of the San Diego/Tijuana broadcast media. (AP Photo/San Diego Tribune, John R. McCutchen) ** MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES MAGS OUT **	A Lebanese man, left, walks on the Lebanese side of the border fence with Israel as an Israeli soldier stands atop an Israeli base, right, at the Abbad Tomb, near the southern village of Houla, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006. The Israeli army abandoned almost all of its positions in Lebanon early Sunday, nearly fulfilling a key condition of the Aug. 14 cease-fire that ended a monthlong war against Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Samer Wehbi)
A sign warning: "Danger Mines" is seen in the southern village of Hamames, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006, as Israeli soldiers patrol in their military vehicle on the Israeli side of the border fence. The Israeli army abandoned almost all of its positions in Lebanon early Sunday, nearly fulfilling a key condition of the Aug. 14 cease-fire that ended a monthlong war against Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)	A Chinese U.N. peacekeeper uses a metal detector to search for mines on the Lebanese side of the border fence with Israel, left, in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, while an ICRC vehicle drives along the border. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)
Virginia National Guard members Staff Sgt. Mark Smith, 47, at left watches the line with binoculars as Staff Sgt. Charles Prosser, 47, keeps a watch on the border fence on a hill hidden under camouflage in Nogales, Ariz., Aug. 25, 2006.(AP Photo/Tucson Citizen, Francisco Medina)	Dayton Booker, 30, of U.S. Border Watch straightens a U.S. flag marking the entrance to a ranch fence near El Indio, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006. The aim of the eight-week operation called "Operation Sovereignty", which began field operations Tuesday is to alert authorities to as many illegal immigrants as possible and act as a deterrent to any would-be crossers who might hear about or see their efforts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A California Army National Guardsman grades dirt with a tractor above the dual U.S.-Mexico border fences in San Diego, Wednesday, July 19, 2006. More than 900 California Army and Air National Guard personnel have reported for duty at Naval Base San Diego and are undergoing processing and training or have already taken up duties to augment federal agents along the U.S.-Mexico border in California. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)	Israeli armored vehicles cross over the border fence which separates Israel from Lebanon as they enter Lebanese territory from a road near the Israeli village of Avivim Saturday July 22, 2006. According to the Israeli military, troops backed by artillery and tank fire seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Border Patrol agent J. Kicklighter scales a game fence using a home-made ladder on a rach near Falfurrias,Texas, June 14, 2006. Kicklighter is part of the Border Patrol's Search, Trauma and Rescue team, known as Borstar, he is part of an elite force that can track someone with a faxed image of a shoe tread, or find a 911 caller by juxtapositions of windmills and mesquite trees mapped in his head. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)	United States Border Patrol agent Mike Diaz looks down on a California Army National Guard worksite along dual U.S.-Mexico border fences in San Diego Wednesday, July 19, 2006. The homes shown in the background are in Tijuana, Mexico. Over 900 California Army and Air National Guard personnel have reported for duty at Naval Base San Diego and are undergoing processing and training or have already taken up duties to augment federal agents along U.S.-Mexico border in California. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Rancher John Ladd, left, and livestock veterinarian Gary Thrasher stand near holding stalls at Thrasher's office in Palominas, Ariz., Thursday, July 20, 2006. In May, the Minutemen broke ground on 2 1/2 miles of a reinforced, five-strand range fence on the Ladds' 14,000-acre ranch near Bisbee. And while the group's volunteers eventually ran out of steam and had to hire a contractor to finish the job, most importantly to the Ladds, the fence was completed. (AP Photo/Sierra Vista Herald, Ed Honda)	Emily Miriam Gallegos puts crosses on the fence outside the border patrol station Wednesday, July 5, 2006, in Imperial Beach, Calif., where a Republican-led House panel was holding a national hearings on immigration. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, Peggy Peattie) **MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, ONLINE OUT, NO ARCHIVING, SAN DIEGO COUNTY OUT, TV OUT, MAGS OUT, NO FORNS, TABLOIDS OUT, WIDE WORLD OUT. COMMERCIAL INTERNET USE OUT **
A lone Border Patrol vehicle along with tower mounted video cameras monitor activity along the border fence between Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego Tuesday July 4, 2006, in San Diego. One day after the Fourth of July, congressional Republicans will offer a fireworks show of their own with the launch of summer field hearings on how to overhaul immigration laws. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)	** FILE ** A fence separating Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, right, and Sonyota, Mexico runs through Lukeville, Ariz., in this Feb. 17, 2006, file photo. Four years after drug smugglers fleeing Mexican police shot to death park ranger Kris Eggle, an $18 million, 30-mile steel-and-concrete vehicle barrier has almost stopped such incursions at this desert park on the U.S. border. Since the crackdown on the U.S.-Mexican border following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, drug and human traffickers have looked to more rural entryways into Arizona. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Manuel "Sharky" Baylon of Naco, Sonora, Mexico, and Cecile Lumer of Bisbee, Ariz., stop to chat across a barbed-wire fence during their joint water distribution mission in the Mexican desert on Monday, June 19, 2006, in Naco, Mexico. The tailgate of the truck in the background is painted to read "water for life." (AP Photo/Sierra Vista Herald, Jonathan Clark)	Marines with the 6th Engineer Support Battalion reserves stand near a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, June 15, 2006, near Naco, Ariz. The unit is in the area to support U.S. Border Patrol operations. (AP Photo/Sierra Vista Herald, Ed Honda)
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent talks on his walkie-talkie as he works along the U.S.-Mexico border fence before a news conference held by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego Wednesday, June 21, 2006. Schwarzenegger toured the area from a helicopter before the news conference held to announce his plans for the National Guard along the border. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)	Volunteers gather to build a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico in Palominas, Ariz., Saturday, May 27, 2006. The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps organized the initiative to build a border fence on private ranch land. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Kadlubowski) ** MAGS OUT, NO SALES **
An illegal immigrant scales a border fence to cross into the United States in Nogales, Ariz. on Friday, May 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)	Volunteer Tom McCabe from the Queens borough of New York walks along a stretch of fence being built along the U.S./Mexican border near Palominas, Ariz., Saturday, May 27, 2006. Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)
Loch David Crane, of Ocean Beach, Calif., a volunteer member of a crew building a Minuteman Civil Defense Corps-sponsored security fence in Palominas, Ariz., watches a wildfire on the southern flank of the Huachuca Mountains, approximately 10 miles directly west from his position, while taking a break Sunday, May 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Sierra Vista Herald, Jonathan Clark)	Border Patrol agents help a girl over a ranch fence so she can be taken into custody in South Texas brush country north of Laredo, Texas, Tuesday, June 6, 2006. According to agents, two girls were separated from their parents after the Border Patrol apprehended a large group of immigrants that crossed into the U.S. illegally. The girls spent the next 11 hours in the brush until agents found them. This comes a few hours before President Bush visits the Laredo Border Patrol Sector. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A U.S. Border Patrol Agent apprehends two undocumented aliens along the international border in Nogales, Ariz. Wednesday, May 31, 2006, as a group gathers along the fence in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. (AP Photo/Matt York)	A Lebanese youth hurls a stone at the Israeli side of the border fence, at the Fatima Gate in the southern village of Kfar Kila, on the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanon, Thursday, May 25, 2006, marking the sixth anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after an 18-year occupation. Lebanon marked the anniversary amid deep divisions among its rival leaders over the fate of Hezbollah's weapons. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)
Border Patrol agents watch the double fence seperating San Luis, Ariz., from San Luis, Sonora, Mexico, Wednesday, May 17, 2006. This port of entry is part of the busiest Border Patrol station in the country. (AP Photo/Matt York)	** ADVANCE FOR FRIDAY MAY 19 ** Israeli soldiers patrol a street in their military vehicle, on the Israeli side behind the electronic fence, in the village of Zarit, on the Lebanese-Israeli border, southern Lebanon, Monday, May 15, 2006. The calm on Lebanon's border with Israel feels increasingly fragile these days as the Iranian nuclear crisis heats up and the adversaries dig in. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
A view of the well-lighted fence at the U.S.-Mexican border is seen Tuesday, May 16, 2006, from San Ysidro section of San Diego, with the Mexican city of Tijuana in the background. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, K.C. Alfred) ** NO SALES, COMMERCIAL INTERNET OUT, FOREIGN OUT MANDATORY CREDIT **	** FILE ** A section of Israel's separation barrier is seen on a hill between the West Bank village of Abu Dis and Jabel Mukaber on the edge of Jerusalem in this May 16, 2006 file photo.As America contemplates construction of a massive fence along the Mexican border, it can look to Israel as a valuable test case. Israel is largely achieving its goal of keeping out Palestinian suicide bombers through a sprawling complex of fences, electric sensors and concrete slabs that snake in and out of the West Bank. But building the barrier has been a gutwrenching process, fraught with political and diplomatic hurdles, that has worsened relations with its neighbors.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
A woman and some children push and pull a cart September 25, 1961 in the Schoenholz district of East Berlin close to the barbed wire fence that divides East Berlin Soviet sector and the French sector of West Berlin. Families living in houses close to the border were forced to leave their homes during these days. (AP Photo/Ede Reichart)	A West German police officer, front center, looks at a woman following the activities through the barbed wire fence between the French and Soviet sector in the Schoenholz district in Berlin, Germany, September 25, 1961. A family, left background, is forced to leave their home close to the sector's border and loads their belongings up a van. In the background are three East German soldiers of the border guard. (AP Photo/Ede Reichart)
A Mexican police officer looks towards San Luis, Ariz. from a break in the fence of the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, March 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)	East German workers adjust a big prefabricated concrete plate to construct a new part of the Chaussee road at the sector border connecting houses in the Boyen street and the East German sector in East Berlin on August 22, 1961. The old road is in West- Berlin. (AP Photo)
** FILE ** A solitary sign and wire fence mark the border beween Mexico and the U.S., May 10, 2004 in southern Arizona. Gov. Janet Napolitano said Wednesday March 1, 2006 that she's prepared to use state money to pay for using National Guard troops on the Arizona-Mexico border if the Pentagon declines to pick up the bill. (AP Photo/John Miller, File)	Workers put up a wire fence, which is the third fence on the Moroccan side of Melilla, Tuesday, March 21, 2006, to prevent would-be immigrants from entering the Spanish enclave in northern Africa..Hundreds of immigrants stormed the border last September and October in Melilla and the other enclave of Ceuta where eleven people died in clashes with security forces. (AP Photo/EFE, Laureano Valladolid) ** LATAM, CARIBBEAN AND SPAIN OUT **
Israeli border police try to remove a Palestinian who chained himself to a fence, part of Israel's separation barrier, during a protest against against the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bil'in, Friday, March 3, 2006. Israel is building a West Bank security barrier for the declared purpose of preventing Palestinian militants from attacking Israeli towns and cities. Parts of the barrier are in the West Bank, and the Palestinians condemn it as a land grab. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)	**FILE** This photo taken off the coast of San Diego, Calif., on Feb. 4, 2005, shows the single layer border fence with Borderfield State Park, Calif., on the left, and Tijuana, Mexico, on the right. A federal judge hears arguments from the Sierra Club and other environmental groups who say Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff lacked authority to waive laws and legal challenges blocking construction of a second border fence in San Diego. The federal government has earmarked $35 million this year to build the fence, which critics say requires more study to ensure against damage to the Tijuana River wetlands. (AP Photo/The San Diego Union-Tribune, John Gibbins) **NO SALES MAGS OUT NO ARCHIVE SAN DIEGO COUNTY OUT**
A Spanish military vehicle patrols the Spanish side of the security fence that borders Morocco in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Saturday Oct. 15, 2005. According to the Saharan press agency, the Saharawi authorities have located more than 40 illegal immigrants that have been abandoned in the Western Sahara desert after being mistreated, stripped off their passports, money and even clothes after being arrested by Moroccan authorities. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)	Handmade ladders used by African immigrants to climb the razor wire fences lie in front of Spanish check point near the wired zone that divides Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Melilla, Friday Oct. 7, 2005. Dozens of African illegal immigrants who charged across the border into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been deported to Morocco, officials said Friday, after a week of deadly clashes. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
A United States flag flies over the border between Cuba and the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Dec. 21, 1999. Seventeen Cuban workers pass through this check point to go to work on the base and the bodies of rafters pulled from the sea are returned to Cuba though its gates.(Ap photo/Jose Goitia)	David Chizum of Valley Mills, Texas walks up from the beach at Border Field State Park along the U.S.-Mexico border fence Wednesday , Nov. 7, 2001 in San Diego. The 57-year-old Texan is trying to become the first person to walk and canoe the 1,952-mile U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
A fenceline along the U.S.-Mexico border near Sunland Park, N.M., is seen partially completed on Monday, Jan. 21, 1997. The U.S. Border Patrol is extending its successful hold-the-line operation to this area by adding more border agents in addition to the border fence. (AP Photo/El Paso Times, Leonel Monroy)	Several Mexican citizens and their dog sit on a hill in Tijuana, Mexico, and watch the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers work on an extension of the border fence into the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1993, in Tijuana. A new immigration bill in Congress is proposing a "triple fence" along the border be constructed to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
Illegal Mexican immigrants leap from the border fence into the United States along the US-Mexico border known as El Bordo near Tijuana in this Nov. 1991 file photo. On Friday Jan. 12, 1996, Attorney General Janet Reno said hundreds of additional law enforcement officers and state-of-the-art equipment will be deployed along the California-Arizona border starting next week to control an expected surge of illegal immigration from Mexico. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)	Palestinians walk down a dirt road between barbed wire fences as they make their way toward illegal entrance into Israel from the West Bank near the Bethlehem checkpoint in southern Jerusalem, Jan. 9, 1998. Thousands of Palestinians lacking entry permits skirt Israeli Army checkpoints and roadblocks daily in order to work in Israel. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)