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Calexico Police Department calls for support as crime rises
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A shortage of law enforcement hit the Imperial Valley - News 11 s Wiley Jawhary reports
CALEXICO, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - A major alert from Calexico Police - officer say crime rates are up, but recruiting is way down. That has members of the Calexico Police Officers Association is begging for more support.
The union tells us, there aren t enough officers available to book suspects for non-violent crimes. This includes offenses like drug possession and driving under the influence.
Patrol Officer Michael Gonzales says this causes even more crime in the Valley. He says it also puts more people in danger.
While College of the Desert faculty consider a possible vote of no confidence against the school s incoming president, Martha Garcia, and the three members of the college s board of trustees who backed her, trustee Ruben Perez is pushing back against accusations he had a conflict of interest.
Perez, the board s vice-chair, voted July 15 alongside trustees Bea Gonzalez and board chair Aurora Wilson to appoint Garcia, the current head of Imperial Valley College. Trustees Fred Jandt and Bonnie Stefan voted no.
Many members of the faculty have expressed dismay that Garcia was chosen over Annebelle Nery, vice president of instruction and acting vice president of student services at College of the Desert.
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Meanwhile, the Bracero Program lost support, and the United States terminated it in December 1964. One advantage of the program had been its legality. The U.S. government kept records of the immigrant workers; however, undocumented Mexican labourers were also drawn by the promise of employment, and, because of the ease with which illegal immigrants could be hired, only a small portion received valid worker certificates from 1947 to 1960. The influx of undocumented workers sparked a public outcry that contributed to the mass deportation of Mexican nationals in 1954 as part of a controversial U.S. immigration law enforcement campaign that became known as Operation Wetback (its name was derived from the offensive term for Mexican immigrants who traversed the Rio Grande to illegally cross the Mexico-U.S. border). After the Bracero Program ended, many American employers in farm industries still needed the work of immigrants in order to adequat
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