Maureen Torrey, a farmer in New York state, says her business has been subjected to aggressive raids by immigration officials.
Local people described aggressive raids in which villagers fled their homes to escape indiscriminate fire from helicopter gunships.
The pharmaceutical industry has persuaded several governments to stiffen regulations against fake drugs and to conduct more aggressive raids (see chart).
"We have been building pressure all week with aggressive raids and trying to create the right conditions," a British officer said.
Brooks's men began the manpower-intensive work of conducting systematic patrols by day and aggressive raids at night; William Bushnell, a sergeant in Brooks's company, was killed on one of those patrols in April.
Sheriff Arpaio, the top law enforcement official in sprawling Maricopa County, is perhaps best known for his hard-nosed treatment of prisoners and his aggressive raids aimed at illegal immigrants.
The neighbourhoods on the receiving end of racial profiling and stop-and-search by police, or aggressive raids by border agents, are the same ones transforming into places ready to have the word "village" added to their name.
For now, though, the only people standing in the way of the Lendu fighters are overstretched United Nations peacekeeping forces, who have recently staged their most aggressive raids in Ituri since the mission began in 1999.
