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A Minuteman II ballistic missile blasts off from the Vandenberg ...

(AFP/USAF/File) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:39:20 GMT

(AFP/USAF/File) - A Minuteman II ballistic missile blasts off from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The START treaty restricts the US and Russia to no more than 3,500 warheads. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his US counterpart Barack Obama will next week plan to sign a framework declaration on replacing the START treaty.(AFP/USAF/File/Sgt. Richard Freeland)

People gather at the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border fence ...

(AP) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:09:27 GMT

(AP) - People gather at the beach near the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, July 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

An uncompleted tunnel shored up with wooden studs and a plywood ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:39:15 GMT

(Reuters) - An uncompleted tunnel shored up with wooden studs and a plywood ceiling reaches under the streets of Nogales, Arizona toward the namesake city of Nogales, Mexico, in this file photograph from the U.S. Border Patrol, dated June 11, 2009. Border police discovered the tunnel after a tip, and arrested two Mexican nationals working to finish it. Authorities in Nogales have found 16 tunnels reaching under the border since Oct 1 2008, a sharp spike in activity as Mexican drug cartels head underground to try and avoid increased vigilance. REUTERS/U.S. Border Patrol/Handout

Children walk past a church in the border town of Jacume, in ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:11:03 GMT

(Reuters) - Children walk past a church in the border town of Jacume, in the Mexican state of Baja California June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

Children walk past a church in the border town of Jacume, in ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:06:55 GMT

(Reuters) - Children walk past a church in the border town of Jacume, in the Mexican state of Baja California June 21, 2009. Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country. Picture taken June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes (MEXICO RELIGION CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS)

Believers walk out a church in the border town of Tecate, in ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:05:44 GMT

(Reuters) - Believers walk out a church in the border town of Tecate, in the Mexican state of Baja California June 21, 2009. Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country. Picture taken June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes (MEXICO RELIGION CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS)

A view of the border town of Jacume in the Mexican state of ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:03:33 GMT

(Reuters) - A view of the border town of Jacume in the Mexican state of Baja California June 21, 2009. Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country. Picture taken June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes (MEXICO RELIGION CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS)

Pendants with images of an AK-47 assault rifle and the Virgin ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:02:19 GMT

(Reuters) - Pendants with images of an AK-47 assault rifle and the Virgin of Guadalupe are seen at a market in the border city of Ciudad Juarez June 28, 2009. Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country. Picture taken June 28, 2009. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO RELIGION CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS)

A federal police officer inspects a drain hole, used as an illegal ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:41 GMT

(AP) - A federal police officer inspects a drain hole, used as an illegal entrance to U.S., in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A U.S. Border Patrol officer stands guard near a drain hole, ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:27 GMT

(AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol officer stands guard near a drain hole, used as an illegal entrance to U.S., in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A U.S. Border Patrol works near a drain hole, used as an illegal ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:18 GMT

(AP) - A U.S. Border Patrol works near a drain hole, used as an illegal entrance to U.S., in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

U.S. Border Patrol and Ice officers work near a drain hole, ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:07 GMT

(AP) - U.S. Border Patrol and Ice officers work near a drain hole, used as an illegal entrance to U.S., in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

U.S. Border Patrol and Ice officers stand near a sewage entrance ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:07:14 GMT

(AP) - U.S. Border Patrol and Ice officers stand near a sewage entrance in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, late Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A suspect stands on his knees while Mexican Army officers look ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:29:16 GMT

(AP) - A suspect stands on his knees while Mexican Army officers look for drug smugglers next to the U.S.-Mexico border wall as a U.S. border patrol and ICE officers stand on the other side, in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A Mexican soldier walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence during ...

(AP) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:25:22 GMT

(AP) - A Mexican soldier walks along the U.S.-Mexico border fence during an operation against drug smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, June 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

A military convoy is seen after arriving to the border city ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:55:29 GMT

(Reuters) - A military convoy is seen after arriving to the border city of Ciudad Juarez June 27, 2009. Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers poured into Ciudad Juarez this weekend as part of a process to refresh troops in the country's most violent city, which has been ravaged by drug gangs. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO CRIME LAW MILITARY SOCIETY)

A military convoy is seen after arriving to the border city ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:53:08 GMT

Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug ...

(AP) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:59:24 GMT

(AP) - Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are taken away by federal agents after a press conference in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2009. Federal police arrested yesterday alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel at the border town of Nogales. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug ...

(AP) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:55:02 GMT

(AP) - Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are taken away by a federal agent after a press conference in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2009. Federal police arrested yesterday alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in the border town of Nogales.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are escorted ...

(AP) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:52:11 GMT

(AP) - Alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are escorted by federal agents after being presented to the media in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2009. Federal police arrested yesterday alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in the border town of Nogales. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are presented ...

(AP) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:48:11 GMT

(AP) - Alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel are presented by federal agents in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2009. Federal police arrested yesterday alleged members of the the Beltran Leyva drug cartel at the border town of Nogales. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug ...

(AP) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:38:11 GMT

(AP) - Seized weapons from alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, back, are presented by federal agents during a press conference in Mexico City, Friday, June 26, 2009. Federal police arrested yesterday alleged members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel at the border town of Nogales. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

In this March 11, 2009 photo, drug addicts prepare to shoot ...

(AP) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:52:07 GMT

(AP) - In this March 11, 2009 photo, drug addicts prepare to shoot up heroin at the Tijuana river near the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. Many of the 10,800 people killed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on cartels in 2006 are small time drug dealers competing for their share of a booming number of Mexican drug consumers, a market that didn't exist a decade ago.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows Bobby ...

(AP) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:46:17 GMT

(AP) - This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows Bobby Pierce, deputy director of the New Mexico Livestock Board examining a section of a Normandy-styled barrier fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that has sunk into the ground near Columbus, N.M. Some border ranchers and livestock experts in New Mexico say the Department of Homeland Security has installed a 'hodgepodge' of fencing along the border with Mexico, with sections so low that cows can step right over it. Border Patrol officials say they've heard mostly positive responses from area ranchers about the new fencing and say more efforts are to come concerning border fencing. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Judy Keeler)

This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows the Normandy-styled ...

(AP) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:45:56 GMT

(AP) - This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows the Normandy-styled barrier fence along the southern edge of the Johnson ranch along the U.S.-Mexico border near Columbus, N.M. This portion of the fence features additional low and high bars on the Normandy barrier to prevent livestock from crossing and also features the flat bar components, middle, for wildlife crossing. Some border ranchers and livestock experts in New Mexico say the Department of Homeland Security has installed a 'hodgepodge' of fencing along the border with Mexico, with sections so low that cows can step right over it. Border Patrol officials say they've heard mostly positive responses from area ranchers about the new fencing and say more efforts are to come concerning border fencing. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Judy Keeler)

Lightning runs across the sky above the US-Mexico border in ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:39:49 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Lightning runs across the sky above the US-Mexico border in Columbus, New Mexico. The United States announced plans Thursday to intensify its fight against international drug trafficking by forging a partnership between two previously competing agencies.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)

A US border patrol vehicle patrols along the US-Mexico border ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:42:24 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A US border patrol vehicle patrols along the US-Mexico border fence. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to accept a case seeking to stop the federal government from building a fence along the US border with Mexico, letting stand a lower court ruling authorizing its construction.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:46 GMT

(AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens take part in a news conference in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2009, to announce new areas of bilateral cooperation that increase security along the Southwest border, and to assist President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat drug-related violence in Mexico. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:35 GMT

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:20 GMT

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:43:17 GMT

(AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, right, smile after signing documents in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2009, announcing new areas of bilateral cooperation that increase security along the Southwest border, and to assist President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat drug-related violence in Mexico. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:38:01 GMT

(AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens wrap up a news conference in Washington, Monday, June 15, 2009, where they announced new areas of bilateral cooperation that increase security along the Southwest border, and to assist President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat drug-related violence in Mexico. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance ...

(AP) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:41 GMT

(AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, right, shake hands after signing documents announcing new areas of bilateral cooperation that increase security along the Southwest border, and assist President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat drug-related violence in Mexico, Monday, June 15, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Soldiers guard a crime scene where a man was gunned down inside ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:33:21 GMT

(Reuters) - Soldiers guard a crime scene where a man was gunned down inside his car at the border city of Ciudad, Juarez June 12, 2009. Drug wars, which remains President Felipe Calderon's biggest challenge, killed more than 6,000 people across Mexico in 2008 and 2,500 people so far this year. The violence has started to spill over some parts of the U.S. border. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO CONFLICT CRIME LAW SOCIETY)

Soldiers guard a crime scene where a man was gunned down inside ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:32:11 GMT

This June 8, 2009 photo shows Oscar Trevino using a chain saw ...

(AP) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:38:14 GMT

(AP) - This June 8, 2009 photo shows Oscar Trevino using a chain saw to trim the fronds of a Sabal Palm in Brownsville, Texas. Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence was to be finished, a judge is demanding answers to lingering questions about how the government plans to use private property in the fence's path. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty)

This June 8, 2009 photo shows Tomas Mendez using hydraulic controls ...

(AP) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:38:01 GMT

(AP) - This June 8, 2009 photo shows Tomas Mendez using hydraulic controls to dig up a Sabal Palm in Brownsville, Texas before moving it to a new location at the Nature Conservancy. Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence was to be finished, a judge is demanding answers to lingering questions about how the government plans to use private property in the fence's path. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty)

This June 8, 2009 photo shows workers tying up the fronds of ...

(AP) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:37:39 GMT

(AP) - This June 8, 2009 photo shows workers tying up the fronds of a Sabal Palm in Brownsville, Texas before moving it to a new location at the Nature Conservancy. Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence was to be finished, a judge is demanding answers to lingering questions about how the government plans to use private property in the fence's path. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty)

This June 8, 2009 photo shows Oscar Trevino hauling a Sabal ...

(AP) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:37:32 GMT

(AP) - This June 8, 2009 photo shows Oscar Trevino hauling a Sabal Palm in Brownsville, Texas to its new location at the Nature Conservancy. Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence was to be finished, a judge is demanding answers to lingering questions about how the government plans to use private property in the fence's path. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty)

This June 8, 2009 photo shows Tomas Mendez using hydraulic controls ...

(AP) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:37:17 GMT

A US border patrol vehicle patrols along the US-Mexico border ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:30:36 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - A US border patrol vehicle patrols along the US-Mexico border fence. US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that their threats to target law enforcement officials on both sides of the border would be met by a "significant response" if acted upon.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)

Lightning runs across the sky above the US-Mexico border in ...

(AFP/Getty Images/File) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:30:36 GMT

(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Lightning runs across the sky above the US-Mexico border in Columbus, New Mexico. US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that threats to target law enforcement officials on both sides of the border would be met by a "significant response."(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)

Mexican soldiers stand by during the incineration of fourteen ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:30:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - Mexican soldiers stand by during the incineration of fourteen tons of drugs in Ciudad Juarez in 2008. US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that threats to target law enforcement officials on both sides of the border would be met by a "significant response."(AFP/File/Guadalupe Perez)

Mexican Federal Police patrol the streets of Ciudad Juarez during ...

(AFP/File) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:30:36 GMT

(AFP/File) - Mexican Federal Police patrol the streets of Ciudad Juarez during an anti-narcotics operation on March 2, 2009. US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that threats to target law enforcement officials on both sides of the border would be met by a "significant response."(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)

Mexican soldiers shoot their rifles during a clash between members ...

(AFP) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:30:36 GMT

(AFP) - Mexican soldiers shoot their rifles during a clash between members of drug gangs and the military in Acapulco on June 6, 2009. US border czar Alan Bersin warned Mexico's brutal drug cartels Tuesday that threats to target law enforcement officials on both sides of the border would be met by a "significant response."(AFP/Claudio Vargas)

Carolina Fuentes looks over a form of public assistance she ...

(AP) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:08:05 GMT

(AP) - Carolina Fuentes looks over a form of public assistance she needs to fill out at the Sacramento county welfare office in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009. Facing a $24.3 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger has proposed ending welfare for poor mothers and their children, wiping out health insurance for 1 million children and disbanding care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other disabilities. Fuentes, 22, a newly-single mother , doesn't qualify for benefits having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenage, applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage of her daughter Katherine, 5. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Carolina Fuentes talks with worker at the Sacramento county ...

(AP) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:07:25 GMT

(AP) - Carolina Fuentes talks with worker at the Sacramento county welfare office, as her daughter, Katherine, 5, waits, in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009. Facing a $24.3 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger has proposed ending welfare for poor mothers and their children, wiping out health insurance for 1 million children and disbanding care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other disabilities. Fuentes, 22, a newly-single mother , doesn't qualify for benefits having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenage, applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage of her daughter.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Carolina Fuentes fills out a form at the Sacramento county welfare ...

(AP) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:07:09 GMT

(AP) - Carolina Fuentes fills out a form at the Sacramento county welfare office in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009. Facing a $24.3 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger has proposed ending welfare for poor mothers and their children, wiping out health insurance for 1 million children and disbanding care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other disabilities. Fuentes, 22, a newly-single mother , doesn't qualify for benefits having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenage, applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage of her daughter Katherine, 5, right. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Carolina Fuentes and her daughter Katherine, 5, wait for an ...

(AP) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:06:40 GMT

(AP) - Carolina Fuentes and her daughter Katherine, 5, wait for an appointment at the Sacramento county welfare office in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009. Facing a $24.3 billion state budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger has proposed ending welfare for poor mothers and their children, wiping out health insurance for 1 million children and disbanding care for people with Alzheimer's disease or other disabilities. Fuentes, 22, a newly-single mother , doesn't qualify for benefits having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenage, applied for cash assistance, food stamps and health coverage of her daughter.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Members of the Mexican navy stand guard beside seven tons of ...

(AFP/File) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:43:06 GMT

(AFP/File) - Members of the Mexican navy stand guard beside seven tons of cocaine in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca state, Mexico in February seized in an operation, with the US coastguard. The United States will step up intelligence efforts aimed at stemming the illicit flow of drugs, guns and cash across the border with Mexico, according to a White House strategy paper soon to be sent to Congress.(AFP/File/Juan Carlos Reyes)