The teacher says he guessed male but the border guard knew better.
Under Germany's highly decentralised federal system, the police (other than the federal border guard), the judiciary and the education service are all the responsibility of the individual states.
As Captain Sylwester Tarniecki of the regional border guard admits, policing this wild border is an imperfect business.
Shafiqur Rahman, a deputy commanding officer of the Bangladesh Border Guard in Teknaf, said his guards detained at least 110 people from Myanmar on Wednesday.
Obama on Wednesday told regional newspaper reporters that he would consider sending the National Guard to the border if the situation escalated.
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In Argentina, the government has sent units of the border police and a naval guard to the rustbelt suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Roshanak Wardak, the MP, thinks foreign troops should guard the Pakistani border and leave domestic security in Afghan hands.
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He has prolonged the deployment of some 1, 200 National Guard troops along the border, to provide backup for the Border Patrol.
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They also argued that coordinating key agencies like the Coast Guard, Border Patrol and Customs under one department could minimize bureaucracy by eliminating overlap.
In its latest progress report on Poland's fitness to join the European Union, which it hopes to do next year, the European Commission scolded Warsaw for not doing enough to tackle graft, especially in the police and border-guard services.
The Irish government has told hauliers they will need special permits to move animals from any farm, more soldiers have been called in to guard the border, and this month's St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, due to take place on March 17, has also been called off.
But another Republican border state governor, Rick Perry of Texas, said he was glad the administration had decided the Guard had a role to play along the border.
"The boat was trying to recover one passenger who fell down from the boat and later on the boat could not control the momentum and it went down inside the water, " Lt Col Zahid Hasan, a senior Bangladesh border guard official, told the BBC.
Obama, meanwhile, stepped up the use of National Guard troops to patrol the southern border, and deportations grew to nearly 400, 000 in 2011.
He is calling the National Guard to the border with Mexico.
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At that pace, it's unclear just how long the National Guard will be required to stay at the border, leaving them possibly faced with another open-ended deployment.
The proposed agency would take over the Border Patrol from Justice, Customs from Treasury, the Coast Guard from Transportation, the FBI counterterrorism center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), among others.
Many congressional Republicans said they supported Bush's plan to use National Guard troops at the border.
Bush said the National Guard troops would fill in temporarily while the nation's Border Patrol force is expanded.
The fire service earlier said that rough seas were complicating the rescue efforts by the Fire and Rescue Service, National Border Guard, Coast Guard and military officials.
Mr. McGINNIS: The Guard's been working the border for a longtime, dating back to the mid eighties with the war on drugs.
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Mr. McGINNIS: There is, but I would say that there's a long history with the guard and police agencies on the border.
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Travellers stand in front of the kiosk to answer the yes or no questions, and if any unexpected physiological responses are picked up by the detectors then the person is passed on to a real border guard who conducts a more intensive interview.
Already a sand-bank, a trench and an electrified fence guard the 200-kilometre-long border.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said troops might provide short-term relief but he did not believe border protection was an appropriate role for the National Guard.
President Bush says National Guard troops will be deployed to the southern border until 6, 000 new civilian patrol agents are hired, trained, and in position.
But few of the 30, 000 Colombians who used to cross each day to shop do so now, because Venezuela's National Guard confiscates their goods when they recross the border, says Mr Uribe, the shopkeeper.
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Though undermanned, Border Patrol and Coast Guard officials try to disrupt the smuggling trips before they begin.
More seriously, Italy is sending the bulk of 600 men who will help guard ports and border crossings.
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