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Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges.
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Chris Calvin enters his bar on the Cowhead ranch near Terlingua at the Big Bend, Texas, Monday, July 28, 2008. Residents on both sides of the Big Bend, as the curve is known, are relieved their unspoiled desert boundary has been largely left out of plans...
