More than $700 million in federal stimulus funds dedicated to upgrading checkpoints along the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada is being unevenly distributed thanks to political influences in Washington. An investigation by the Associated Press discovered a border station in Whitetail, Montana—which serves an average of three people a day—is getting $15 million, while the border operation in Laredo, Texas, one of the busiest in the nation, is getting zero dollars. Laredo handles more than 55,000 travelers and 4,200 trucks a day.