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Border
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Border
A set line denoting the extremities of a country, government, legal jurisdiction or property. Borders for governments or jurisdictions are agreed between parties or set by a higher authority. Borders between properties are set by a government or the original owner. An owner of property sometimes may subdivide and sell pieces, thereby creating new borders within his old property.


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An appendix lists the beginning and ending dates, and relevant declarations and resolutions, of US military excursions outside her national borders beginning with Indian wars in 1817 and extending to the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Report also mentions that, most migrants do not cross national borders, but instead move within their own country, 740 million people are internal migrants, almost four times the number of international migrants.
Originally created for reasons of enhancing national security, this new system of interstate 'freeways' significantly contributed to the post-war prosperity of the country as a whole and lead to the creation and expansion of private trucking companies in the 1950s to move goods quickly and efficiently anywhere within our national borders.
 
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