Summary of Joseph Wambaugh's Lines and Shadows

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#1 Burl Richard Snider had traveled half a lifetime from the hotel in San Ysidro. He had gone from the U. S. Border Patrol to service as a park policeman on the other side of America, in Washington, D. C. He had remarried, returned west, and had two more children.

#2 The American government had, by 1976, publicly commented that the alien situation appeared almost hopeless. The director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service had, by 1976, publicly commented that the alien situation appeared almost hopeless.

#3 The police had a hard time dealing with the bandit gangs, which were not very concerned about the victims’ mothers and babes. The police had a hard time dealing with the number of murders that were happening around an imaginary line that was used to divide two economies.

#4 The San Diego police department had a difficult time dealing with the numbers of aliens they were arresting. The numbers of crimes committed by aliens were not being reported, though, which was causing damage to the city’s image.

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Ebook: 29 April 2022