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The 1980s and early 1990s brought violence to abortion clinics across the country. In response, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994 , which made it a federal offense to engage in violent or obstructive conduct intended to interfere with people seeking or providing reproductive health services. This report provides info. on (1) the occurrence of abortion clinic incidents before and after FACE; (2) views regarding FACE and its effectiveness from rep's. of these clinics, police depts., federal agencies, and national org's.; (3) efforts by local and federal law enforcement agencies following the enactment of FACE; and (4) court cases pertaining to FACE.
Illegal immigration has been a long-standing problem. In Feb. 1994, the Attorney General announced a broad, five-part strategy to strengthen enforcement of the nation's immigration laws. This report focuses on one of those strategies -- to deter illegal entry along the southwest border. It addresses: what the strategy calls for; actions taken to implement the strategy along the SW border; whether available data confirm the strategy's hypotheses, with respect to expected initial results from the strategy's implementation; & the types of indicators that would be needed to evaluate the strategy to deter illegal entry along the SW border.
Combining the insight of two-dozen expert contributors to examine key figures, events, and policies over 200 years of U.S. immigration history, this work illuminates the foundations of the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of our nation. The two-volume The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas is organized around a series of four dozen in-depth essays on specific aspects of American immigration history since the founding of the Republic. This encyclopedia addresses the major historical themes and contemporary research trends related to U.S. immigration, canvassing all the major policy endeavors on immigration in the last two centuries. In addition to documenting imm...
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Report on the Weed & Seed (W&S) Program, an important component of the Dept. of Justice crime prevention program as well as a major part of the Admin's. community revitalization strategy. W&S is a community-based, multiagency program that proposes to weed outÓ crime from targeted neighborhoods, then seedÓ the site with a variety of programs & resources to prevent crime from recurring. Local W&S sites develop partnerships with other federal, state, & local governments & private sector agencies to leverage federal W&S grant funds with additional resources from these partners to promote weeding & seeding activities. Charts & tables.