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Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, passed by the US House of Representatives, December 16, 2005 [legislation tightening illegal immigration controls, including plans to build a security fence across 621 miles of the Mexican border and authorizing the US Department of Homeland Security to study the possibility of placing barriers across the famously "undefended" US border with Canada]. Read the full text of the legislation [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.