Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helping the poor, the Mexican graduate students were also doing something unusual. Says Wills, "it was neat for them because [college students] don't normally interact with the lower class. We provided a bridge which wasn't really planned, and that was very gratifying...
While he was investigating the idea of teaching English, Wills says several Mexican private schools asked him to teach their students. "There are no natives teaching English in Mexico," Wills explains, adding that he turned down these offers, because he wants to teach poor children in Mexico to be comfortable around Americans. "With all the tourism, it opens up job opportunities. No one's ever done this, we could be the best language program in the city," he says...
...paunchy, middle-aged Mexican is lying on the side of the track. His arm is bleeding, and he has been hit in the stomach. An agent radios for an ambulance. "He turned on us with this," says Trevino, a 9-mm semiautomatic Taurus pistol in his hand. "We were lucky, real lucky...
...McAllen sector, 280 miles of the U.S.-Mexico boundary, this drug bust last week was the third in as many days, although the first for months involving a shoot-out on U.S. soil. South Texas is one of the most important points of entry into the U.S. for Mexican-grown marijuana, as well as cocaine from Colombia. Last year the Border Patrol in the McAllen sector captured drugs worth more than $182 million. Yet for all their success, the Border Patrol and other U.S. agencies estimate that they intercept just 10% of the drugs coming across the Mexican border...
Even the State Department, which produced the certification list, has quietly joined the DEA in opposing the full certification of Mexico, partly on grounds that Mexican authorities have failed to prosecute suspected killers of a DEA agent. But the President and Attorney General Edwin Meese took a more tolerant view of Mexico's drug-fighting efforts. "We have to recognize that in some countries the government is fully cooperative," Meese said recently. "They are less than fully successful because of intimidation, bribery and corruption...