Word: patrollers
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...stretching its mandate to repair the ravages of war and internal breakdown. The role hasn't worked very well, in part because the U.N. lacks the money and men to do the job. But the main difficulty is with the job itself. The U.N. has been asked to patrol war zones, create governments from feuding factions, supply humanitarian relief -- even as U.N. members lack the political will to impose peace on belligerents...
Because his first priority is "safety, safety and safety," Riordan said, he plans to beef up the 7,800-member police force immediately with overtime pay, the transfer of desk officers to patrol, and more reservists. The 3,000 additional officers he has promised later will be paid for by streamlining other city departments, leasing the airport and privatizing some services. No new taxes, he vows, because Los Angeles "has already taxed itself out of the competition for new business...
Like many national trends, the anti-immigrant backlash is appearing first and strongest in California. The nation's most populous state is the biggest lure for illegal immigrants, mainly Mexicans who sneak, run, and tunnel across the frontier in numbers far greater than the border patrol can possibly control. They then compete for jobs in a state that has suffered deeper employment losses than most during the long national recession and limping recovery. Or so say the critics; allies of the immigrants insist they actually make the economy more competitive by taking low-wage, manual-labor jobs that Americans scorn...
...biggest reason for fearing a nationwide backlash is that illegal entries keep going up, despite government attempts to reduce them. The Immigration Control Act of 1986, which imposed criminal penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, stanched the flow just briefly. Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the U.S.-Mexican frontier dropped from 1.7 million in the year before the act took effect, to 890,000 three years later. But the number has climbed back to 1.2 million a year. As a rule of thumb two or three illegals get away for every one who is caught...
Among his experience in Vietnam was an encounter with a patrol of Viet Cong soldiers at a pagoda on the Mekong River...