Word: smugglers
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...suddenly rising sharply. In a perverse way, IRCA has enhanced the smuggling trade by motivating undocumented aliens to plan their trips more carefully. Result: up to half the estimated 3 million illegals entering the U.S. successfully each year -- perhaps 25% of them permanently -- are now smuggler assisted. The sordid trade reaps as much as $1 billion in annual revenues and uses such tools as safe-house hotels, bribes, fake documents and even involuntary servitude...
Able to cover a swath of sky from Iceland to the northern coast of South America, the OTH radar can monitor a smuggler's plane from soon after it takes off in, say, Colombia until it reaches the U.S. When a technician in Bangor sees an unscheduled flight over the Caribbean, the information will be relayed - to the Pentagon's Joint Task Force Center in Key West, Fla. An Air Force fighter will follow the suspect plane, and officers of the Customs Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration will be alerted to the mystery craft's course so that they...
Less than a year later, federal prosecutors in Florida won indictments accusing Noriega of helping Colombian drug lords smuggle tons of cocaine into the U.S. Soon Washington began painting Noriega as one of the villains of the century: not only a drug kingpin but also an arms smuggler and a murderous tyrant. How come? Why did the U.S. so long support Noriega despite the gathering evidence of his unsavory activities? And why did it then do an abrupt about-face...
...emerging "drug exception" to the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures -- a willingness by courts, where drugs are concerned, to permit searches they might otherwise disallow. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has allowed expanded use of so-called drug-courier profiles -- descriptions of a smuggler's characteristic behavior and appearance -- as a basis upon which to stop and question suspects, despite complaints that such profiles give police license to stop blacks and Hispanics. It has also upheld the right of police to inspect a drug suspect's garbage without a warrant. "There is a sense...
...drug drop. DEPOSIT CONTRABAND HERE BEFORE YOU ENTER THE UNITED STATES reads a sign in language that seems more suitable for an antilittering campaign. The lock on the mailbox is rusty, and a spider has built a formidable web over the chute where any law-abiding, English-speaking drug smuggler would drop his neat little packet of cocaine or heroin. While the mailbox is an extreme example of bureaucratic wishful thinking, the larger U.S. approach to the problem often seems little more sophisticated...