Border Patrol: from cop to rescue ranger
Tags: BORDER patrols; ILLEGAL aliens; DEATH
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- GAO faults Border Patrol methods for tracking deaths. Lamb, Jim // Inside Tucson Business;10/9/2006, Vol. 16 Issue 17, p15
The article reports on the need for U.S. Border Patrol to improve methods for tracking deaths of illegal immigrants seeking to enter Tucson, Arizona. The survey conducted by the General Accountability Office reveals that death among women have increase and more than half of those deaths occurred...
- 'Twilight' town death sparks Border Patrol debate. VALDES, MANUEL // Native American Times;6/24/2011, Vol. 17 Issue 25, p2
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- Humanitarian Acts. McPheeters, Paula // Exchange (19460406);Jan/Feb2013, Issue 209, p40
The author, an early education teacher, discusses undocumented Mexican immigrant Manuel Cordova, who found a boy wandering alone in Arizona as Cordova was attempting to cross into the U.S. The boy's mother had been killed in a car accident, and Cordova took care of him until they were found by...
- Death in the desert heat. Hammer, Joshua // Newsweek;8/24/1998, Vol. 132 Issue 8, p29
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- Border Patrol to be beefed up in P.R. Collins, John // Caribbean Business;8/3/1995, Vol. 23 Issue 31, p32
Discusses the increased US Border Patrol operations in Puerto Rico's west coast as a result of increase in illegal Dominican Republic (DR) aliens. Number of illegal aliens apprehended; Areas targeted for special attention in 1996; Budget for the Immigration & Naturalization Service in Puerto...
- Self-Selection among Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico. Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline // Working Paper Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta);Feb2001, Vol. 2001 Issue 1, p2
This paper examines the effect of changes in migration determinants on the skill level of undocumented immigrants from Mexico. The authors focus on the effect of changes in economic conditions, migrant networks, and border enforcement on the educational attainment of Mexican-born men who cross...
- Raiding Arizona. Paige, Sean // Insight on the News;07/26/99, Vol. 15 Issue 27, p10
Reports on the increase in immigration agents assigned to Douglas Station in Arizona and on the armies of undocumented aliens (UDA) that they track, apprehend, process and return to Mexico. Actions being taken by the United States Border Patrol in tracking UDA; Challenges facing the Border...
- Settlement sends signal on violence by border patrol. Davidson, Miriam // Christian Science Monitor;6/6/95, Vol. 87 Issue 133, p3
Reports on the settlement reached between Mexican Dario Miranda's family and the Border Patrol Agent Michael Elmer and the US government. Incident of Miranda being killed at the border.
