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.
Pakistan prefers to make common cause with ethnic Pushtuns, who straddle the border, to guard against Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras, whom the generals regard as close to India, their arch-enemy.
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.
The Bedouin attacks on Egyptian police and border guard installations in al Arish and Suez over the past three weeks are an indication that the fear of a strong state, which was so central to Israel's thinking in during the peace process with Egypt, is no longer Israel's most urgent concern.
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.
And the weakest part of America's border defences remains unaffected: the Coast Guard.
Mr Bush's most eye-catching proposal sending the National Guard to the border is largely for show.
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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He is calling the National Guard to the border with Mexico.
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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.
Hamas claimed it found a suitcase filled with gold, forged Pakistani and US passports and the identification card of murdered IDF border guard Nissim Toledano.
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.
Backing this up, tens of thousands of army and Revolutionary Guard troops have been deployed along the Afghan border in Khorasan province.
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