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...much more difficult for them to find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that the INS is embarking on what literally amounts to a last-ditch tactic: it will soon dig a 5-ft.-deep, 4-mile-long trench along the Mexican border near San Diego, in part to prevent fast-moving cars packed with illegal immigrants from racing across the boundary...
Although his disclosures may eventually help close up to 23 outstanding cases, few authorities credited Bundy with more than a last-ditch effort to delay his execution. Said Florida Governor Bob Martinez: "For him to be negotiating for his life over the bodies of victims is despicable...
...stem the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the U.S. has resorted not only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some...
Battered pro-choice groups, who kept a relatively low profile during the campaign, are now pulling out the stops for their own last-ditch, high- visibility crusade to safeguard the right to abortion. "We are determined that not one woman in America will die or be maimed from a back-alley abortion because George Bush was elected President of the U.S.," said Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women. NOW is planning a huge letter-writing campaign to petition the Justice Department and Supreme Court to retain Roe v. Wade, plus a protest at Bush's Inauguration. Together...
Throughout most of the general election campaign, Dukakis didn't even offer the voters a choice. Only when he faced incredibly long odds, did Dukakis find his voice--a liberal voice--and begin to ignite the passions of the electorate. It was his last-ditch populist crusade of "I'm on your side" which fueled hopes of a long-shot victory. It was his long-awaited defense of liberalism which began to bring the Democrats back home...