Border security reported tightening
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- No more border games. Dobbs, Lou // U.S. News & World Report;1/31/2005, Vol. 138 Issue 4, p42
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- THE DESERT OF THE DEAD. Colloff, Pamela // Texas Monthly;Nov2006, Vol. 34 Issue 11, p160
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- GOING AFTER ILLEGAL ALIENS. Marek, Angie C. // U.S. News & World Report;11/28/2005, Vol. 139 Issue 20, p30
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- Border Patrol: from cop to rescue ranger. Vanderpool, Tim // Christian Science Monitor;7/13/2001, Vol. 93 Issue 160, p3
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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...
- Lethal Force on the Border. Carlsen, Laura // Foreign Policy in Focus;6/17/2010, p2
The article focuses on the death of 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez Guereca after being shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on June 7, 2010. In a June 8 statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it asserts that the agents responded to a group of suspected illegal aliens being...
- Blocking the Border. Grose, Thomas K. // ASEE Prism;Jan2007, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p15
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