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Search results for "border control" ...
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Phoenix Kidnappings: Uncovering the truth
"For years Phoenix has been called the kidnapping capital of the U.S. Police, city leaders and politicians blamed it on the border, citing 2008 statistics that claimed there were 358 kidnappings that occurred in the city. However, KNXV's investigation uncovered the statistics used were inaccurate."
Tags: kidnapping; border control; crime; broadcast
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Game of Control
While some agencies have chipped away at corruption in football, their efforts have stopped at their national borders. Criminals have observed no boundaries. Reporters for the Organize Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a consortium of investigative reporters, took a months-long look at the business of football in the southeast Europe and the former Soviet Union. They found networks of agents and power stakeholders quietly skimming transfer fees and working through tax havens and companies with shell proxies to avoid taxes. In post-transition Bulgaria some 200 killings have been linked to football. Among the dead are 15 club leaders who attained their posts through questionable means.
Tags: football; soccer; corruption; murder; athletes; organized crime; Eastern Europe
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Border Violence
The reporters investigated the war unfolding along the U.S.-Mexican border involving drug trafficking organizations and both governments. The authors were interested in going beyond the body counts to why this violence was happening, why it had begun to accelerate and how it had reached cities like Dallas, hundreds of miles north of the border.
Tags: violence; border control; drug cartels; drug war; Mexico - U.S. border; gangs; Nuevo Laredo; law enforcement; Zetas
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Bull's Eye: Brazil's Taurus Shows Why Gun Makers are Grateful to the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal reports how "the U.S. is just about the only good news in the global handgun business. The international financial crisis that enfeebled many of the world's economies last year has combined with increasingly restrictive gun-control laws across the globe to make the U.S. more important than ever to firearm manufacturers outside its borders."
Tags: gun manufacturers; Taurus; Baretta; Glock; Brazil
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The American Spectator probes into the Whitewater controversy and reveals that knowledge of the Clinton's alleged involvement in the failed Savings and Loan was kept a secret until after the 1992 election. The article discusses damage control by White House officials before the Whitewater scandal was picked up by the press. (March 1996)
Tags: Borders Ring-Adams Filling in the blanks Madison guaranty savings and loan 6 pgs.
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In the fight to crackdown on illegal immigration both Bill Clinton and Bob Dole have come out for tighter border controls. Not much attention, however, has been paid to the big American industries-construction companies, nurseries and fruit growers-that rely on immigrant workers for cheap, often dangerous labor. In this article U.S. News & World Report looks at how meatpacking outfits search aggressively for employees in southern border states and hire recruiters who find workers in Mexico who will work for low wages. (Sept. 23, 1996)
Tags: Hedges Hawkins LoebIllegal in Iowa Exploitation Illegal aliens 10 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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Colonias: Rural Development on the Border
The Monitor reports how the "Colonias, maligned as border slums by the rest of Texas, have become an enduring part of the border landscape, defying solutions even as they beckon more families searching for a piece of land and a home of their own. In the Rio Grande Valley, an estimated 887 colonias dot the region, multiplying even as officials struggle to control their growth... these random collections of mostly rural subdivisions too often fall short of basic needs: Electricity. Safe drinking water. Indoor plumbing. Drainage. Paved roads."
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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.