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    “ We need to know who’s in the United States. We need to know everyone who’s in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren’t. To accomplish that‚ we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.” - Rudy Giuliani What more should America do to protect her borders? I think to protect our borders we should Improve everything that out border patrol security does. Secondly‚ we need to improve

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    Borders and Boundries

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    Borders and Boundaries In John Sayles movie “Lone Star” and in Silko’s article “The Border patrol State”‚ the main idea in both the readings revolve around the racial discrimination and the racism based on the ethnicity on the U.S Borders. Both the readings have the clues and evidences where the authors are challenging the conventional notions of the borders in the U.S. Silko‚ on one hand‚ sees the border patrol as a governmental assembly addicted to interrogation‚ torture‚ and the murder of those

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    Yellow Woman Silko

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    Khayla Salangsang February 20‚ 2013 ENG 123 MW 11AM Identity in “Yellow Woman” by Leslie Marmon Silko “Yellow Woman” by Leslie Marmon Silko is a story about a woman who goes on a journey with a man. On this journey‚ the narrator‚ who is assumed to be the woman‚ is plagued by questions of who she is and if the stories of her culture about what she may be becoming are true. She struggles to find herself and what she wants because she wants to be herself but at the same time‚ see if she is becoming

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    The US Mexico Border Pre-1519 U.S.-Mexico border region is inhabited by many Native American groups who have lived in the area for centuries. 1535 Spain establishes colonial government in Mexico. 1819 Adam-Onis Treaty: U.S.-Mexico boundary established by Spain and the United States. 1821 Mexico wins independence from Spain. 1824 Mexico becomes a republic. | 1846 The U.S. Mexico war begins. 1848 Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in the Sacramento Valley area of California

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    Leslie

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    Leslie Tseng 10/4/12 Period: 5 Final Book Report Raskin‚ Ellen. The Westing Game. New York: Scholastic‚ 2002‚ 216. Setting: Sunset Towers‚ Westing house‚ Lake Michigan‚ Wisconsin Characters: (List 5‚ and label the protagonist and antagonist. Use 2 adjectives to describe each character.) 1. Sam Westing: weird‚ secrety 2. Flora Miller Baumbach: unhappy‚ quiet 3. George Theodorakis: creative‚ rich 4. Catherine Theodorakis: cool‚ nice 5

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    Directed Patrol

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    directed patrol method is to allocate patrols towards specific locations during particular times in order to target certain crimes. Directed patrol may be used to deter or catch criminals involved in such crimes as robbery‚ auto theft‚ or residential burglary. Additionally‚ directed patrol requires police departments spend less time on calls-for-service and more time focused on specific offenses in particular geographic areas in an effort to reduce crime for a given area. Directed patrol further

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    Saturation Patrol

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    billion is funding police-patrol programs each year. In Tennessee‚ a study on saturation patrol reliability was conducted. It was analyzed through the results of patrols during the day and night. A saturation patrol is a method that involves multiple officers placed in specific locations that have high rates of DUI cases. Enforcing more saturation patrols will eventually lessen the possibility of alcohol-impaired driving of a community. Conducting more saturation patrols will result in having more

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    Border Security

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    The United States and Mexico border has been a contention for many years now in the context of its security. Although much has been done from‚ increasing Border Patrol Agents to adding fences there is still a large number of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border with Mexico. Despite all these means of security and any other humane means at the United States disposal‚ nothing will stop immigrants from crossing the border illegally as long as they do not remain completely open. Fencing

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    Citizens on Patrol

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    Citizens on Patrol What would an individual do to keep their home or neighborhood safe? The answer has become quite popular over the last few decades. In fact neighborhood prevention is becoming extremely popular as well as successfully reducing crime in some neighborhoods. One of the major forms of neighborhood crime prevention is citizen patrol. Citizen patrol or often referred to as citizen on patrol is extremely popular due to the fact that it solely relies on surveillance. Furthermore

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    OHIO STATE HIGHWAY PATROL COMMUNICATIONS Good communication is key to having a successful work environment. Regardless if the communication is internal‚ external‚ verbal or nonverbal they can have positive or negative effects on an organization. Being able to commutating effectively with employees may not come easy for everyone. Many organizations have implemented set systems and procedures to ensure the uniformity of the communications process. The Ohio State Highway Patrol has a policy and

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