Polis
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Bewijs dat een hek wel degelijk werkt. Onbegrijpelijk dat ik dit hier zelfs moet bewijzen of uitleggen maar soit.
This began to change in 1993 with an initiative in the El Paso area dubbed Operation Hold the Line which involved the Border Patrol being reconfigured along the border to deter illegal entry rather than back from the border attempting to apprehend those who had illegally entered. Fence holes that had been left open were repaired. This strategy had an immediate impact on reducing illegal entry. This success resulted in a similar strategy being applied in the San Diego sector. There were about a quarter million fewer apprehensions in 1994 than the previous year. Technology also was introduced to allow electronic fingerprinting of apprehended aliens with the idea of being able to establish whether an alien had been apprehended previously. This IDENT system was not initially successful because it was not consistently used, it was not available for search and comparison use by other sectors, and was not tied into federal fingerprint records of the FBI to reveal criminal records. Those limitations have gradually been overcome.
The effect of the new initiatives to deter illegal entry resulted in a major shift in routes of illegal entry. As illegal entry at El Paso and San Diego dropped, the number of illegal entries and apprehensions soared along the Arizona-Mexico border. This border region was for the most part wide open although a much more hostile terrain to cross.

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