Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illegal aliens caught in Arizona had climbed sharply, breaking records nearly every month and hitting an alltime high of 11,200 in April. Then Gustafson took a night helicopter tour of the notorious 66-mile border stretch from the Pacific inland past Chula Vista, Calif., where the Border Patrol picked up 49,511 interlopers in April, up 46% over the same period last year. When the pilot turned on the chopper's spot lights, hundreds of Mexicans could be seen striding across the desolate, scrub-covered fields deeper into the U.S. But it was not until three weeks...
...Border Patrol reckons that if the wave continues, an unprecedented 2 million immigrants, double the average annual influx, may sneak into the country before 1983 is over. More than half a million will become permanent residents, joining the shadow population of 3.5 million to 6 million illegal immigrants already here. They come for jobs, scrambling through fences, hopping freight trains, wading the Rio Grande, or riding in trucks with smugglers, who charge as much as $2,000 a head. Said a Mexican baker in Phoenix who smuggled his wife and ten children across the border: "It was too hard...
...only helpful if the "most destabilizing" nuclear weapons systems are reduced first, such as multiple-warhead missiles. By contrast, it would make no sense to reduce the number of missile-bearing U.S. submarines by 50%: "Fewer than ten submarines [the estimated number that would then remain on active patrol at any one time] would have to be tracked and destroyed for a successful surprise attack against what is now the most invulnerable part of our force...
...youth had gone with friends to a winery in Warsaw's Old Town to celebrate, following a school examination. When they came out, they were stopped by a militia patrol. Przemyk was seized and severely beaten. An official statement later said he had been involved in a drunken brawl and had to be "forcibly calmed" when the militiamen took him to a first-aid station. Przemyk's friends denied the charge. Przemyk died two days later, after undergoing emergency surgery. In an emotional letter to Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poet Wiktor Woroszylski wrote that "the surgeons who opened...
...does not clearly define the forbidden conduct to an ordinary citizen and "encourages arbitrary and erratic arrests," said Justice William Douglas. Many state and local lawmakers responded by trying to make the language of their vagrancy laws more precise. The statutes are needed, say authorities, to help police on patrol reduce crime. When the court decided to review California's law, the International Association of Chiefs of Police joined in a brief supporting the statute. Says San Diego Prosecutor Daniel Kremer: "It seems to provide a reasonable balance between the individual's interests in privacy and society...