Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important part of Reagan's program, however, is the crackdown on illegal aliens. The Administration wants to increase the INS budget by $150 million, partly to provide more agents to patrol the Mexican-American border. Reagan also proposes to fine businesses that employ four or more people up to $1,000 for each illegal alien they hire. Although Reagan has rejected Attorney General Smith's proposal for a counterfeit-proof Social Security card, the Administration will recommend that an alien job seeker must produce two forms of identification for employers and must sign a form swearing that...
...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...
Anne E. McDonald, head of the secondary school program, said yesterday. "There has been no crackdown." The discussion at Monday's regular proctor meeting, she said, was "just a going over, a re-emphasizing of things from orientation...
Interviews with several proctors all of whom asked not to be identified indicated that most viewed the new policy as a crackdown and had warned their proctees that any use of alcohol was forbidden...
...well-behaved. But Tuesday night. I told them if I see beer cans you're going to go to the dean's office," the proctor added. Summer school officials made it clear that out next talk to kids was to serve as the final warning...It's definitely a crackdown," he added...