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Search results for "Border Patrol" ...
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Border Vigilantes
A KPHO-TV investigation reveals "that two ranchers have been stopping people on a public highway for what they look like," thus attempting to fight illegal immigration. The story details how numerous "ranchers and ranch hands have detained hundreds of illegal immigrants on private property and called the Border Police to pick up the Mexicans." The reporters find that ranchers in Southeast Arizona "may have taken their fight beyond their own properties" and that police officers seem to be afraid to confront the stoppers.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Hispanic; border patrol; human rights; crime; private land
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Border Patrol Investigation
A KGTV-TV investigation into the US Border Patrol reveals that San Diego agents are forced to leave their positions unmanned for hours in order to go to Arizona on work details. KGTV-TV finds that this practice leaves the San Diego County border unprotected, and wastes millions of tax dollars.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; US Border Patrol; Arizona; San Diego County; agents; tax dollars; government spending; law enforcement
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Bob's Boys
Icon reports how one day Bob Maupin got sick of smugglers and immigrants invading his Texas backyard and decided to stop them. But a neighborhood watch that uses army surplus is an international incident. They've always had uninvited guests, but no more than a handful until October 1994, when President Clinton launched Operation Gatekeeper, a $50 million campaign to seal the San Diego - Tijuana border that doubled the station's number of Border Patrol staff. The INS knew that would steer traffic to the east. Illegal entries in the San Diego area have been sliced nearly in half since Gatekeeper began, but six months after its launch, apprehensions in Bob's neighborhood shot up 809 percent and inflated from 2,300 seizures in 1994 to 78,000 in 1996. "It's a war zone, nothing less." But the Border Patrol is scared that law enforcement is giving vigilantes a green light.
Tags: Immigrants; INS; vigilantes; neighborhood watch
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Crossing the line
The body count of America's "war on drugs" rises with the gunning down of an innocent 18-year-old goatherd -- killed by Marines on U.S. soil along the Mexican border. Riverfront Times examines the circumstances surrounding the killing in Redford, Texas.
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No title (id: 13191)
In These Times reports on aggressive new border enforcement that has not really deterred illegal immigration. Many immigrants cross the border in hopes of finding work. Operation Gatekeeper is the federal government's latest border-enforcement project. The $46 million operation is said to reflect the growing wave of xenophopia in the country and among politicians. (Sept. 16, 1996)
Tags: Nathan Dangerous crossings Border Patrol Mexico Immigration and Naturalization Service INS 3 pgs.
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Crime Without Punishment
In a yearlong investigation, the San Francisco Chronicle analyzed thousands of Immigration and Naturalization Services cases to find that employers nationwide are flouting laws establishing fines and prison terms for those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. More fines are being collected in cities in Oregon, Ohio, Nebraska and Arkansas than in San Francisco and while the INS pledges to double numbers of workplace inspectors nationwide, most of the money will go to bolster the Border Patrol rather than crackdown on workplace fines. (March 18,1996)
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No title (id: 10692)
Common Cause Magazine finds that the Clinton administration's policy of promoting economic interests ahead of arms control leaves the country's borders minimally patrolled, making weapons smuggling and easy and lucrative pursuit, Summer 1994.
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No title (id: 9499)
The Progressive reports on the abuse that latino-Americans receive from Immigration and Naturalizaton Service Border Patrol in the El Paso, Texas, area; two seperate studies, one by Americas Watch and the other by the American Friends Service Committee, report that Border Patrol abuses are so widespread that their actions are compared to human-rights abuses by repressive Third-World regimes, April 1993. # Plaza
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No title (id: 4548)
San Diego Magazine probes allegations of abuse by Border Patrol and immigration service officers, finding numerous incidents of beatings, kidnappings and questionable shootings of illegal immigrants, poor internal review and use of inaccurate and misleading statistics, June/July 1986.
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No title (id: 3641)
Village Voice (New York) looks at the tense situation along the Mexican-U.S. border; describes how "coyotes" illegally guide Mexicans across the border into the United States; discusses the brutality of the border patrol, May 30, 1989.