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...argument that a rapid build-up of federal forces will prevent unauthorized immigration and violence on the border, that claim is debunked by the factual history of enforcement. We’ve been beefing up the border for years: Since 1990 the number of Border Patrol agents has grown from 4,000 to over 20,000, more than doubling since 2005. Since 1986, through the enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, the Border Patrol has implemented a more aggressive strategy, heavily garrisoning urban entry points and pushing migrants into the desert in the hope of halting...
...City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a billion sets of eyes and ears from every corner of the globe are glued to television screens and radios. The international sports media will call it the final day of a tournament that represents South Africa’s modernism and rapid, inspirational distancing from its torrential past of racial and economic inequalities. They will only be half right...
Brown’s engineering building, which was constructed in 1960, limits the division’s current programs amid “rapid developments in technology and science,” Gao said...
...because MHASP is run entirely by college students, it still struggles with the pitfalls of rapid volunteer and leadership turnover...
...name recognition of Mission Hill helps draw in a consistent and sufficient number of volunteers each year, overcoming the attrition problems facing many other volunteer organizations. But the rapid transitions of volunteers and leadership runs the risk of blurring the institutional history of the program...