Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter, light 24 hours a day in the summer, treeless, ice-ridden Barrow, lusted for a Mexican restaurant, Fran claims. "So I just overdrew my checking account by $11,000, wrote a hot check, let a couple of big bills slide and opened Pepe's North of the Border...
...twilight, about 300 illegal immigrants had massed on "the soccer field," a patch of rock-strewn brown earth halfway up Otay Mesa and just across the U.S. border from a rundown section of Tijuana, Mexico. Some bought tacos from a vendor who wheeled a white cart through the crowd; others burned old tires to cook makeshift meals before pushing off into the rattlesnake-infested canyons leading toward San Ysidro, Calif., and points north. Two dozen agents of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), deployed in Dodge Ram trucks on surrounding hillsides, squinted through binoculars to count the aliens...
...light faded, groups of pollos (chickens, a slang term for the immigrants, who tend to travel in flocks) filed into the canyons and the chase began. A border patrolman looking through an infrared nightscope at a hillside spotted four human shapes and summoned a helicopter hovering over a nearby ravine, but by the time the chopper arrived they were gone. Another agent was about to leap out of his truck and arrest three illegals in Moody's Canyon when his radio crackled out news of bigger game: a dozen immigrants heading toward the fields abutting Otay Mesa Road...
...trunks of cars or under the floorboards of false-bottom pickup trucks. On this particular Sunday night, agents working the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift rounded up 155 aliens and took them to a detention center. INS guards then put the pollos aboard buses, drove them to a border crossing and herded them through a wire gate back into Mexico. Nearly all would try to slip across the border again, many only hours later the same night. They would keep coming until they eventually escaped to pursue the irresistible lure of jobs that are unavailable in Mexico. Says Alan...
...most mega of these national biggest is, as everywhere else, the Jackson tour, which, despite the best efforts of assholic local pols, may yet make it to Sullivan Stadium, actually near the Rhode Island border, in early August. Stay tuned and hope...