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Border Patrol

A cat-and-mouse game intensifies with US Border Patrol as illegal crossings rise in Texas

The issue of immigration reform in the United States has been pushed to the side as the US Congress weighs other concerns. But immigration reform advocates say the problem of people entering the United States illegally is as big as ever. We hear about the growing number of would-be immigrants who are dying along the US/Mexico border. We also meet a local politician who tried to pass laws to discourage illegal immigration in his community - and lost.

Also, refugees of the 1990s civil war in Bosnia now living in the US offer advice to Syrians who are fleeing the violence in their homeland. And a cartoon sponge who鈥檚 become ubiquitous in Egypt.

Picture: A grandson hugs his grandfather after both were apprehended by Border Patrol in Hidalgo, Texas, Credit: M贸nica Ortiz Uribe

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Mon 23 Sep 2013 00:32GMT

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  • Sat 21 Sep 2013 04:32GMT
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