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- <text id=91TT0419>
- <title>
- Feb. 25, 1991: Careful, Tio Sam Might Want You
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 25, 1991 Beginning Of The End
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- Careful, Tio Sam Might Want You
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. Border Patrol thinks Operation Desert Storm may
- explain why the number of Latin Americans caught trying to
- cross the border from Mexico declined dramatically in late
- January. In Laredo and Del Rio, Texas, border arrests were down
- as much as 40%, compared with the same month a year ago.
- Arrests in Yuma, Ariz., decreased 30%. Immigration officials
- say Mexico is rife with rumors that the U.S. government is
- drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the
- war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican
- nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to
- join the military. Army recruiters contend the aliens attempt
- to enlist, mistakenly believing they can obtain citizenship.
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- </body></article>
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