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...made a show of plugging up the Mexican border to keep out migrant workers and drug smugglers. Yet it gives much less public scrutiny to the millions who enter the country by air. Once foreigners reach American soil unlawfully, the INS, under pressure from industries that depend on cheap labor, does next to nothing to throw them out. The job of tracking the more than 6 million illegal aliens who've made it in falls to a squad of just 2,000 INS enforcement agents, a force the size of the San Diego police department. Even now agents have only...
Advocates for reform of this system say the question now facing Congress is whether it's willing to labor full time on a plan to help those who depend on part-time work...
...future government. And the prospect of the Taliban's defeat may even be exacerbating sharp differences between the agendas of the rival Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari components of the Northern Alliance, and between the competing regional interests of Iran, Russia and Pakistan. The Taliban's demise, however, will depend strongly on whether Pashtun groups can be persuaded to switch sides. And despite Pakistan's efforts to rally them this week, many of these groups appear to be hedging their bets...
...streets of Karachi. Fearing a mounting backlash, Musharraf wants the bombing to end by Ramadan. After all, right now he faces large demonstrations once a week after Friday prayers, but during Ramadan many more Muslims go to mosque every day. Still, the duration of the war may still depend in part on Musharraf's own intelligence service, which is best-placed to actually find Bin Laden...
...outpouring of support for the victims in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania has been matched only by the swelling patriotism evident in the ubiquitous symbol of the American flag. But as these charities and the Red Cross have been overwhelmed with funds and assistance, other groups nationwide that depend on donations for survival have been forgotten...