Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works in Florida, has crossed the border so often in search of work that he has lost count. He has been arrested at least a dozen times and lives in constant fear of being sent home again. Just last month he narrowly escaped detection when a border patrol questioned him at the nursery where he works, but the officers did not ask for his papers. Says he: "I will work like this until...
...minimum of fuss and expense. The problem is catching them, for they have as many escape routes as the snakelike Rio Grande has bends. Maintaining the daily vigil in the Harlingen sector of the Texas-Mexican border is Roland Lomblot, 51, a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. He and his eleven-man crew capture an average of 200 aliens a month. But the agents are so outmanned that they figure 2,000 get by them...
...back home. The farmer returns at midday and, lo, his boxes are full. A Mexican labor manager, who hires the workers, arrives later in the day for his pay. Says Lomblot: "The farmer gets cheap labor, the Mexicans keep from starving, and everybody's happy but the border patrol...
...Fifteen teams of federal agents-about 70 in all -swooped down on the houses of suspected narcotics traffickers in the biggest drug bust ever launched along the Tex-Mex border. In all, 62 people had been indicted. As the handcuffed prisoners were unloaded from official cars at the border patrol office in Rio Grande City (pop. 6,000), townspeople gathered to applaud and jeer, "You finally...
County law enforcement has been lenient, with no major drug arrests for several years. Sheriff Reymundo Alvarez has only ten full-time deputies, five part-timers and one patrol car, which usually needs jumper cables to get it started, to cover 1,211 square miles. Four of the deputies cannot read or write English. "We can't do everything here," says Alvarez. "We have to escort funerals and settle family arguments and investigate accidents all over the county...