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...furor over Proposition 187, however, has obscured an anti- immigration campaign that may have just as much impact, but far sooner. Attorney General Janet Reno has decided to try to virtually seal off the 2,076-mile border with Mexico to illegal crossers. The U.S. Border Patrol has long maintained it could accomplish this if given a chance, but the patrol has always been underfunded and understaffed...
...agency is getting its chance. The campaign started with successful experiments in the Border Patrol sectors in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego. Operation Hold the Line, which began a year ago in El Paso, has brought a 72% reduction in arrests, which are considered the most accurate bellwether of the number of illegal crossings. In the San Diego area, where half of all illegal immigrants into the U.S. sneak through the jagged canyons and urban alleys, a two-year tightening effort culminating in Operation Gatekeeper in October has reduced the number of arrests 30%. Inspired by these statistics...
Everado disappeared on March 12, 1992, after the group of rebels he was leading ran into a Guatemalan army patrol...
Over the next few weeks, HASCS will implement a 24-hour "highway patrol" to rescue lost partitioned souls without leaving them off the road for more than a few hours...
...wasn't a problem, while the remainder said the degree of the problem hadn't changed. Only 11 percent of communities surveyed said violence was not a problem. Among other findings: one in four areas reported serious injury or death at schools in 1994, 70 percent have police patrol the hallways and 19 percent use metal detectors.Post comment toSociety