Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups of immigrant criminals are unusual. The Colombian cocaine dealers, sent to the U.S. as operatives in the drug trade, work out of South Florida and up the East Coast. Thus far they have limited themselves to what they know best, coke, but officials fear that with their capital, highly developed organization and icy ferocity, they could easily expand their activities...
...other unprecedented gangster phenomenon is the Marielitos, who arrived in Florida in 1980 when Fidel Castro loaded up a refugee boat lift with the dregs of his prisons. The crime rate in Miami's Little Havana jumped an astonishing 83% within months of their arrival. The Marielitos have since fanned out around the country, and special police squads have been set up to deal with them in cities as varied as Las Vegas and Harrisburg, Pa. With no central bosses or structure, the Marielitos operate as loose bands of conscienceless predators, uneducated and wild but also shrewd. One of their...
...crooked." Five lawyers have been convicted or sentenced this year on charges stemming from immigration-law violations. Two have been disbarred. The best known of the high-profile immigration lawyers, Gerald Kaiser of New York City, was indicted in April by a federal grand jury in Florida for allegedly defrauding other lawyers, who paid as much as $60,000 to join his national chain of immigration-law firms...
Many more stations this year will carry the 10 games, Frank added. He said that the public stations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., and several outlets in Florida would feature the Ivy Game of the Week each Saturday...
...vacation sting was part of an eleven-week Florida roundup in which the marshals and local police forces successfully tracked down 3,816 fugitives. Although most of the arrests resulted from more conventional police tactics, the Puno ploy and similar lures helped to collar violent criminals without anyone being injured. "Scams usually work very well with this type of fugitive," said U.S. Marshal Jerry Bullock, "because their entire lives are devoted to getting something for nothing...