Word: patroller
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...July, four unmanned boats believed to have been piloted by smugglers have washed up onshore, with another intercepted nearby. All have been long, narrow panga-style fishing boats with outboard Yamaha motors. Food wrappers and life jackets littered the interiors. (See pictures of San Diego's high seas border patrol...
Indeed, many Republicans, like Texas Governor Rick Perry, think the Obama plan should go further. Perry wants to add 1,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol his state's border, and he said on Tuesday that even more border-patrol agents should be sent as well. The White House, however, seems cool to the idea of militarizing the border, especially since potential gringo military intervention is one of the key concerns Mexicans have about the Merida Initiative, a bilateral antidrug plan that began last year and is supposed to funnel almost $1.5 billion in U.S. aid to Mexico over three...
...Merida project was designed to support Mexican President Felipe Calderón's two-year-old offensive against the cartels, which has had to rely on the Mexican military, given the corruption and incompetence of most Mexican police forces. Seven thousand troops now patrol Juárez. The Merida Initiative does steer resources to Mexico's fledgling police- and judicial-reform efforts, including sorely needed police retraining, but critics say it should do more in that area, since professionalized cops are the long-term solution to the crisis. Then again, that responsibility is Mexico City's, not Washington's. Clinton...
...show any visible sign of injury but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor," said a statement from the resort, which is about 80 miles northwest of Montreal...
...resort said the instructor and a ski patrol accompanied Richardson to her hotel, where they again recommended she should be seen by a doctor...