51.   The immigration debate has been recast to focus on border security and homeland defense.

52.   The legislation would create a Cabinet-level Department of National Homeland Security to integrate border security and emergency preparedness for natural and manmade disasters.

53.   The measure would also tighten immigration rules, heightening border security and allowing officials to detain foreigners longer without filing formal charges against them.

54.   The new cabinet department would focus on border security, emergency preparedness, protection against bioterrorism, information analysis and infrastructure protection.

55.   The new department would be responsible for border security, intelligence and other functions that several federal agencies now supervise.

56.   Traffickers knew they had enough drugs in the US market to allow them to wait out the expected increase in border security.

57.   Two agencies that are slated to become part of the new domestic security department announced steps on Tuesday to strengthen border security.

58.   WASHINGTON BUSH SIGNS BORDER-SECURITY MEASURE President Bush signed legislation to improve border security and to toughen enforcement of immigration laws.

59.   While Canadian forces are serving alongside the Yanks in Afghanistan, Chretien has made prickly, nationalistic -- and goofy -- statements about border security.

60.   Police have stepped up airport and border security after a U.S. warning that terrorists might be planning to strike a high-rise somewhere in the country, officials said Wednesday.