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Service 7 also conducts an estimated ten to 15 break-ins every day at large hotels in Paris to copy documents left in the rooms by visiting businessmen, journalists and diplomats. These "bag operations" first came to the attention of the U.S. Government in the mid-1980s. One U.S. executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Friends Become Moles | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Even so, IRCA supporters insist that the law has helped solve the problem. Since 1987, IRCA has allowed 3 million undocumented aliens to obtain legal status. During that time, the number of aliens captured annually fell by half, from a peak of 1.8 million in 1986. Although supporters applaud this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

IRCA was also supposed to increase the ranks of border-patrol agents within the INS to as many as 6,000. Congress never provided the funding, however, and today's 3,800 agents are overworked and demoralized. INS agents are now up in arms over a proposed reorganization scheme that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

IRCA set fines and jail terms for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, but the law is a sieve. It requires only that the boss examine any two of 17 proofs of citizenship, some of which, baptismal certificates for example, have thousands of acceptable variations. This has produced a cottage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

Those employers who openly defy the INS often find that it has no teeth. Since 1986, the INS has fined roughly 5,000 employers, but a study by the Rand Corp. and the Urban Institute shows that the average penalty was a mere $850 in an alien-saturated city like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Freedom | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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