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ByEileenSullivan The Associated Press WASHINGTON Passen- gers at some overseas air- ports that offer U.S.-bound flights will soon be re- quired to power on their electronic devices in order to board their flights — a measure intended to en- hance aviation security at a time when intelligence of- ficials are concerned about hidden explosives, a coun- terterrorism official said. American intelligence officials have been con- cerned about new al-Qaida efforts to produce a bomb that would go undetected through airport security. There is no indication that such a bomb has been cre- ated or that there's a spe- cific threat to the U.S., but intelligence has sug- gested that al-Qaida and like-minded groups are fo- cused on perfecting an ex- plosive that could be hid- den in shoes, electronics or cosmetics, said the of- ficial who spoke on condi- tion of anonymity because the official was not autho- rized to publicly discuss the matter. The Transportation Se- curity Administration says it is adding the require- ment that passengers com- ing to the U.S. from some airports must turn on de- vices such as cellphones before boarding. It says devices that won't power up won't be allowed on planes and those travelers may have to undergo ad- ditional screening. Turn- ing on an electronic device can show a screener that the laptop or cellphone, for instance, is a working de- vice and that the batteries are used for operating that device and that the device is not hiding explosives. The enhanced security measures come as U.S. in- telligence officials are con- cerned about Americans and others from the West who have traveled to Syria to join the fight against the Syrian government. The fear is that a fighter with a U.S. or other Western pass- port, who therefore may be subject to less stringent security screening, could carry such a bomb onto an American plane. TSA will not disclose which airports will be conducting the additional screening. Industry data show that more than 250 foreign airports offer non- stop service to the U.S. Heathrow, Europe's busi- est airport, told passengers that they might not be al- lowed to take electronic devices onto planes if they could not be switched on. It posted a security up- date on its website telling passengers, "If you are fly- ing to the US please make sure any of your electronic devices are charged before you travel." British Airways also is- sued an update for passen- gers flying from Britain to the U.S. "Customers may be asked to turn on any elec- tronic or battery powered devices such as telephones, tablets, e-books and lap- tops in front of security teams and/or demonstrate the item's functionality," the update said. "If, when asked to do so, you are un- able to demonstrate that your device has power you will not be allowed to fly on your planned service." American intelligence officials have said that they have picked up indications that bomb makers from Ye- men-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula have traveled to Syria to link up with the al-Qaida affiliate there. Homeland Security Sec- retary Jeh Johnson recently ordered the TSA to call for extra security measures at some international airports with direct flights to the United States. TSA does not conduct screening abroad, but has the ability to set screening criteria and pro- cesses for flights flying to the U.S. from abroad, ac- cording to a Homeland Se- curity Department official, who was not allowed to dis- cuss the changes publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. FLIGHT SomeUS-boundtravelers must turn on phones EUGENEHOSHIKO—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Passengers queue up for a security check at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, in 2012. ERIC GAY — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cindy Jimenez, 26, from Olancho, Honduras, and her son depart the bus station in McAllen, Texas, on June 20. Jimenez crossed illegally into the U.S. By Christopher Sherman The Associated Press MISSION, TEXAS The in- flux of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has grown so large that it now requires its own transpor- tation system: government buses that spend each night idling on a Texas roadside, awaiting the latest arrivals. The buses, joined by a fleet of Border Patrol vans, illustrate the immense and grindingly routine task fac- ing Border Patrol agents in the 5-mile slice of deep South Texas that has be- come the epicenter of the recent surge in illegal im- migration. An Associated Press re- porter recently spent sev- eral days in this arid ter- rain, revealing a daily tide of migration that sends im- poverished families into a harsh landscape bristling with cameras, lookout tow- ers and heavily armed pa- trols. Against that back- drop, human smugglers and drug cartels match wits with overwhelmed Ameri- can authorities. Deputy Rudy Trevino was patrolling a park along the border when he spied movement in the darkness. Swinging his spotlight to- ward the motion revealed 14 women and children who had just sneaked across the Rio Grande in a small boat. T he youngest , a 14-month-old boy from Guatemala, lay quietly in a baby carrier hung from his mother's chest. The oldest, a 38-year-old woman from El Salvador, cried with her head in her hands, her 7-year-old daughter leaning against her. CentralAmerica main homeland Most of the immigrants hail from Central Amer- ica, and many come with children. They often turn themselves over to author- ities immediately after crossing the river, follow- ing the advice of smugglers, friends and relatives, who tell them they will even- tually be released and al- lowed to continue to their destination. For parents with young children, that has largely been true because the U.S. has only one long-term family detention facility, in Pennsylvania, and it's full. Most parents are handed notices to appear at the immigration office closest to their destination and dropped off at bus stations across the Southwest. Children arriving with- out their parents are trans- ferred to custody of the Health and Human Ser- vices Department, which tries to reunite them with family members in the U.S. Both groups have often been allowed to remain in the U.S. while their im- migration cases move for- ward, a process that can sometimes take years. Migrants' willingness to surrender to authorities has created a system in which smugglers need only to get their human cargo to the American side of the river, rather than guiding them to a populated area. Just since October, the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector has made more than 194,000 arrests, nearly triple that of any other sector. In the first week of June alone, agents in this area south of Mis- sion arrested more than 2,800 people, most from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, making it the highest-volume arrest zone on the entire U.S. border. More than 60 percent were children. Many agents, few pursuits The zone is patrolled by no fewer than six lo- cal, state and federal law- enforcement agencies, in- cluding gunboats crewed by Texas state troopers with night-vision goggles and the Border Patrol's white and green trucks. Helicopters swoop above the winding waterway. But there's little cat- and-mouse pursuit. Every day, hundreds of immi- grants walk up to agents, wave to their remote cam- eras or simply wait to be picked up on the side of a road like Trevino's group in the park. When Anzalduas Park is busy on weekend after- noons, it takes only sec- onds for a watercraft to dart across the river and deposit three or four people onto U.S. soil. From there, they blend into the crowd of park goers. Trevino said the past two months have been "chaos." He's corralled 100 people in a night and had a group of 50 walk up to him at the park bathroom. Downriver from the park, the landscape reverts to a band of thick mesquite and underbrush along the Rio Grande. It can feel re- mote, but it's just a thin buffer between the more than 600,000 residents of Reynosa, Mexico, and a master-planned community in Mission with more than 1,900 homes just a couple of miles to the north. Garza recently drove through one of the many gaps in the border wall to cut a tree stump from prop- erty owned by his uncle. "When they built the bor- der wall, everything ended because they left a big old gap right here that so hap- pened to be where our land is," said Garza, 38, who sells firewood for a living. "That's where these guys have to run their dope. It's really sad." In deep South Texas, a daily tide of poor migrants IMMIGRATION HOT SPOT By Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press PHOENIX A federal ap- peals court has dealt a new blow to Arizona in its se- ries of immigration-related crackdowns, ruling that the state cannot deny driv- er's licenses to young im- migrants who were allowed to stay in the U.S. under a 2012 Obama administra- tion policy. Arizona was one of two states that refused to issue licenses to young immi- grants, sparking the latest court fight over the issue. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer called the ruling misguided and said she was considering appeal. The decision follows other high-profile battles between Arizona and the federal government over immigration, including a U.S. Supreme Court de- cision that struck down much of a 2010 enforce- ment law but upheld its most hotly debated sec- tion, which requires police to check immigration sta- tus under certain circum- stances. "We hope that this rul- ing signals the end of what has been an unfortunate anti-immigrant period in Arizona," said Karen Tum- lin, one of the attorneys representing the immi- grants. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found there was no legitimate state inter- est to treating young im- migrants granted deferred action on deportation dif- ferently from other non-cit- izens who could apply for driver's licenses. Instead, the panel suggested the policy was intended to ex- press hostility toward the young immigrants, in part because of the federal gov- ernment's policy toward them. The decision should re- move any barriers young immigrants face in get- ting a driver's license in Arizona, she said. The ruling comes dur- ing a national focus on the topic as tens of thousands of immigrants from Cen- tral America — many unac- companied children — have illegally crossed into the country in recent months, straining the capacity of detention centers along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Obama adminis- tration in June 2012 took administrative steps to shield thousands of im- migrants from deporta- tion and expand their le- gal rights. The move as- sists immigrants younger than 30 who came to the U.S. before turning 16, have been in the country for at least five continu- ous years, are enrolled in or have graduated from a high school or GED pro- gram or have served in the military. Aside allow- ing driver's licenses, appli- cants also were allowed to pursue a two-year renew- able work permit. About 520,000 people have been approved to take part in the program, including about 19,000 in Arizona. Brewer issued an execu- tive order in August 2012 directing state agencies to deny driver's licenses and other public benefits to young immigrants who get work authorization un- der the program. COURT Arizona loses immigration driver's license dispute The Associated Press MISSOULA, MONT. Boe- ing is deciding what to do with six newly manufac- tured commercial airplane bodies that fell off a train in a derailment in western Montana, including three that slid down a steep riv- erbank, a company spokes- woman said Monday. Experts from Boeing Co. and Spirit AeroSys- tems, which built the fu- selages, are at the site of Thursday's derailment on the Clark Fork River about 50 miles west of Missoula, spokeswoman Dina Weiss said in a statement. "Oncewehavecompleted our assessment of damages and determined our next course of action, we will de- cide what to do with the fu- selages," she said. She said in a statement that other Boeing 777 and 747 airplane parts on some of the 19 cars that went off the tracks appear undam- aged and will be shipped to the company's Everett, Washington,assemblyplant. The derailment sent three 737 fuselages down an em- bankment of the Clark Fork Riverandknockedthreeoth- ersfromthetrain.Weisssaid itwasnot clearwhetherthey were 737-700s, which are rel- atively short at 110 feet from nosetotail,orthelonger737- 800s or 737-900s, which are more than 133 feet long. The fuselages were being shippedfromtheSpiritAero- Systems plant in Wichita, Kansas, to a Boeing facility in Renton, Washington, to be assembled into airliners. 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