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border patrol

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Noun1.border patrol - a group of officers who patrol the borders of a countryborder patrol - a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country
patrol - a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
border patrolman - someone who patrols the borders of a country


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As part of a three-tiered strategy to maximize detection and apprehension of illegal aliens, Border Patrol agents at checkpoints screen vehicles for illegal aliens and contraband.
A community backlash has forced the US Border Patrol to drop a controversial plan to aerially spray the broad-spectrum herbicide imazapyr along a stretch of the Rio Grande as part of a program to clear vegetation along the increasingly militarized frontier.
Bush commuted the sentences of former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.
 
 
 
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