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| August 01, 2002 | Smith, Diane | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

FORT WORTH, Texas _ Monitoring the border between North Dakota and Canada can be trying even for the most tough-skinned U.S. Border Patrol agent.

An agent might stand unseen for hours in bone-chilling weather. Blizzards can bring enforcement to a standstill because visibility ends at the hood of the car.

"It's the opposite of the 110-degree heat in the Texas and Arizona deserts," said Glen Schroeder, chief patrol agent in Grand Forks, N.D.

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration has viewed the U.S.-Canadian border as vulnerable, so much so that the USA PATRIOT Act calls for tripling the number of agents posted there.

But more than 10 months later, the Immigration and Naturalization Service is still working ...

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