President Bush, Leaders of Mexico and Canada Pledged to Work Toward More Secure Borders, Easier Trade.

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Original Source: FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME

ANGLE: The two long borders with Canada in the north and Mexico in the south offer the U.S. plenty of opportunity for trade, but they also offer terrorists an easy way to slip into the country. That was one of the chief topics at the Bush ranch today when the president sat down with the leaders of both our neighbors.

FOX News White House correspondent Wendell Goler report.

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WENDELL GOLER, FOX NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president offered his highest honor, an invitation to his Texas ranch to the country's closest neighbors, after the leaders gave their cabinet secretaries 90 days to come up with plans to tighten the borders, increase security at ports and airports, and to increase energy and trade production.

G. BUSH: I look forward to our ministers reporting back with concrete action. They will be held to account, you're right, Mr. Prime Minister.

GOLER: The joint project is aimed in part at smoothing public relations. But unlike his recent fence-mending trip to Europe, Mr. Bush's differences with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin are not a thing...

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