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October 2001
Border Law Enforcement, Part II
Features:
SWARM:
Southwest Alliance to Resist Militarization
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
Based in Tucson, Arizona and begun in 1999, the Southwest
Alliance to Resist Militarization (SWARM) is dedicated to ending
the militarization of the US-Mexico border and the environmental
and human-rights abuses that accompany the ever-increasing presence
of civilian law enforcement and military units in the borderlands.
Joint
Task Force Six (JTF-6): Military Support for the War on Drugs
by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor
JTF-6 was established in
1989 to integrate Department of Defense support for local, state
and federal law enforcement agencies involved in anti-drug operations.
Since then JTF-6 has completed more than 5,000 operational, training,
intelligence and engineering missions in support of 430 civilian
law-enforcement agencies from all levels of government. While
JTF-6 support is much appreciated by law enforcement, it has
faced criticism from human-rights and environmental groups.
The Border Patrol's El Paso Sector
by Greg Bloom, FNS
Editor
Responsible for all of New Mexico and two western Texas counties,
the Border Patrol's El Paso Sector has over 1,000 agents that
apprehended over 115,000 undocumented migrants last year and
made numerous drug seizures. This article looks at the day-to-day
operation of the Border Patrol and addresses criticism of the
organization from human-rights and environmental groups.
Shades
of Juárez: The Search for the Missing Women of Chihuahua
City
by
Kent Paterson, courtesy of Albuquerque's Alibi
Freelance journalist Kent Paterson
takes a comprehensive look at the recent disapearance of women
in Chihuahua City. Just as in Ciudad Juárez, located 300
miles to the north, the women have tended to be young, maquiladora
workers. Other similarities between the cities include the formation
of parent's groups that are frustrated with the inability of
law enforcement to locate their missing daughters.
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