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This is the year end time and time for the lists and remembering the year gone by. Amongst the clutter of so many stories during the year Foriegn Policy mag<\/a> has listed a \u201cTop 10 stories\u201d that most of the folks missed. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

In the run-up to the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, conservative lawmakers\u2014desperate to show supporters they were making progress on immigration and border security\u2014easily passed the Secure Fence Act, authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered, reinforced fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lost in the shuffle was the fact that Congress had only earmarked enough money to build 370 miles\u2019 worth of wall. Give it another budget year, the barrier\u2019s strongest backers said, and the rest of the cash would surely make its way south.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is the year end time and time for the lists and remembering the year gone by. Amongst the clutter of so many stories during the year Foriegn Policy mag<\/a> has listed a “Top 10 stories” that most of the folks missed. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

In the run-up to the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, conservative lawmakers\u2014desperate to show supporters they were making progress on immigration and border security\u2014easily passed the Secure Fence Act, authorizing the construction of 700 miles of double-layered, reinforced fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Lost in the shuffle was the fact that Congress had only earmarked enough money to build 370 miles’ worth of wall. Give it another budget year, the barrier’s strongest backers said, and the rest of the cash would surely make its way south.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nTop 10 stories missed in 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is the year end time and time for the lists and remembering the year gone by. Amongst the clutter of so many stories during the year Foriegn Policy mag has listed a "Top 10 stories" that most of the folks missed. 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