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...Paulo state; between 800 and 1,000 more prisoners are jailed each month and the system is stretched to the breaking point. "We'd need to build a new prison each 15 days to hold these new inmates," Mazina said. "And then we'd need to hire and train people to run them. This is a country that doesn't have the fiscal or structural conditions to provide health, education or housing, so how can we invest massively in prisons...
...Baghdad. After that? You have to have somebody implement a long-term program to take account of the way the world is changing--weapons proliferation, what kind of cover you need and what sort of security clearance you really need to work at the CIA. How do you hire a Pakistani Urdu speaker who immigrated here when he was 6 years old and get him through a security exam? Under the old rules, he's got too much baggage...
...problems you described can be fixed with sufficient professional and support staff. But even as hospital profits are at all-time highs, staff numbers are being cut. Why don't hospital administrators hire enough staff to provide patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...
Tightening border security may score political points, but will it slow illegal immigration? A 2004 government report estimated that more than half of illegal immigrants come to the U.S. legally, then overstay their visas. Experts say the U.S. will remain a magnet as long as businesses are willing to hire such migrants. "The military can play a support role at the border," says Mark Krikorian of the conservative Center for Immigration Studies. "But there's no substitute for interior enforcement...
Senate negotiators, eager to rejuvenate the immigration-reform proposal that stalled before their Easter break, agreed last week on a bill that would create guest-worker programs--Bush aides say the President will veto any reform that lacks such initiatives--and introduce steps to crack down on illegal hiring that could affect all Americans. The bill, to be debated this week, authorizes 1,000 new customs officials to focus on investigating forged documentation and toughens rules on what identification must be presented to potential employers. U.S. citizens would have to show a passport or a controversial new-format driver...