Tim Weiner NYT

PUERTO CORTÉS, Honduras - "Right there," said Manuel Pereira, a security guard here at the largest shipping port in the Caribbean, pointing to the ground beneath his feet. "That's the new border of the United States."

Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, American officials have spoken of "pushing back the borders" of the United States in the name of national security. Now they are doing it across the seas. ......
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