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Committee gives preliminary OK to bill toughening penalties for border tunnels

Dustin Volz, Cronkite News Service//March 7, 2012//

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Committee gives preliminary OK to bill toughening penalties for border tunnels

Committee gives preliminary OK to bill toughening penalties for border tunnels

Dustin Volz, Cronkite News Service//March 7, 2012//

[caption id="attachment_43684" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Rep. Ben Quayle, right, listens Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee markup vote on the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012, a bill cosponsored by the...

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