Word: rios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watch on the Rio Grande is a most crucial outpost in the ceaseless war of nerves with the illegal Mexican immigrants. Here they can be quickly apprehended and returned home with a 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...
...piece of equipment is a "people sniffer," an electronic sensing device developed to catch the prowling Viet Cong. Despite its name, the instrument actually detects the minute seismic vibrations caused by a person walking. The agents place the gadget-the size of a briefcase-near the banks of the Rio Grande and don earphones. When they pick up a vibration, they move in to seize their prey...
Stretching some 58 miles along the Rio Grande lies Starr County, Texas, a barren land of sagebrush and mesquite trees. Most of its 20,000 inhabitants are Mexican-Americans who scrape together a living as stoop laborers during the melon-picking season. Yet in the past two or three years, brick houses worth as much as $75,000 have sprung up among the pink and green shanties that line Route 83 between Roma-Los Saenz and Rio Grande City. Outside some of them sit new refrigerators still in their shipping cartons...
...basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...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...