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...felt both pleasure and disappointment at the fact that Border Patrol estimates that they only apprehend one of every two or three who try to cross over illegally. Last year, they caught over 600,000 illegals. The U.S. Immigration Service doesn't know how many made...
...arrested for painting the word "LOVE" in large letters across and entrance to the New York State Thruway. With the aid of his conjuring tricks, The Sunlight Man breaks out of jail and begins to conduct a series of dialogue with Clumly, who is trying haplessly to apprehend...
...chief elements of the bill have been floating around Capitol Hill since 1982. But pressure for action did not crest until this year, when the deteriorating Mexican economy increased the already heavy flow of illegal aliens across the Rio Grande. U.S. border patrols are expected to apprehend some 1.8 million illegal aliens this year, 500,000 more than in 1985. By some estimates, for every person caught, another will get through. Meanwhile, public outcries against terrorism and drug traffic translated into a fear of open borders to the south. "It was a combination of things," said Representative Leon Panetta...
...contain more information than digital. The sweep of the second hand defines every possible infinitesimal unit of time. But for most of us that is not the appeal of analog. After all, the extra information is of no use. It whizzes by too fast for the human eye to apprehend. When you ask someone for the time and he answers, "Four fifty-six and thirty-seven seconds," you know he's wearing a digital watch. If the fellow next to you has an analog watch, you might not even have to ask him. You simply lean over, and by noticing...
Frustrated U.S. drug busters may have decided to go outside diplomatic channels to apprehend one reputed marijuana smuggler, Rene Martin Verdugo, who is suspected of being involved in the DEA agent's killing. Verdugo, widely known as La Rana (the Frog), was walking the streets of tiny San Felipe, Mexico, on Jan. 24 when six masked men pounced on him and whisked him into an unmarked car. They drove their blindfolded captive north to an obscure stretch of the Mexican border near Calexico, Calif., where they handed him through a hole in the fence to U.S. marshals...