Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including dozens of correspondents in ten bureaus, plus scores of editors, writers and reporter-researchers on the New York staff. Senior Editor Henry Muller, who oversaw the issue, traveled to California to meet with immigrant leaders, illegal aliens and law-enforcement officials. He joined a nighttime border patrol south of San Diego and crossed into Mexico. Muller brought a special perspective to the task, for he is himself an immigrant, having come from Switzerland at the age of six. "This project has reminded me of what makes America unique," he says. "No other country has the courage...
This used to dismay the border patrol officers when they came tramping through the fields about once a week in search of illegal immigrants (they usually seized about five...
...little peculiar, the border guards thought, but why not go along with somebody who wants to help out the law? Then the crew boss went to his workers, explained the deal and said everyone would make more money if work did not have to be interrupted by raids. So the workers drew lots once a week to pick the five who would have to be shipped back to the Mexican border. Before the five victims left, though, the hat was passed for funds to help the unlucky five sneak back north across the border, a trip that usually started...
...along the platform, a woman from Nicaragua, now a U.S. citizen, explained the subway system to her niece. The older woman, in secret and at great expense, had retrieved her niece the week before from a paid guide, a so-called coyote, who had smuggled the girl across the border at Brownsville, Texas...
...case for meeting that condition, the convention stipulates that detainees must be returned to their homes "as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased." Israel would seem to have acknowledged that that has happened: some 500 of the 1,200 prisoners it brought across the border were released before the hostage crisis...