At the same time, the government embarked on a massive enforcement campaign of the character test, detaining people even for historical offences, or people who had lived for years in Australia after serving several short prison sentences.
On July 30, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange announced that its massive enforcement campaign was bearing fruit.
The larger question, of course, is whether this sort of massive law enforcement and military response to suspicious bathroom activity is worth the (presumably immense) cost.
"You look on the pier and it was a massive law enforcement," said a deck officer, Bob Bataille, 55, of Wall Township, N.J. "When we got up there, a couple of people got really upset".
Likewise, he emphasizes how the drug war sucks up massive law enforcement dollars without reducing use.Ms Dalmia goes on to say, "This is a savvy approach because it allows him to be more pro-liberty on more issues and reach more people, especially independents for whom putting America's fiscal house in order is a top priority".
A massive law enforcement search ensued for the closest thing the state had to a dauphin.
"I find it the height of irony that a party that espouses small government would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort, including perhaps National Guard and others, to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don't know, in buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border".
But even setting aside Clarke's extreme rhetoric, there are serious concerns about whether Clarke is qualified to oversee a massive federal law enforcement agency.
The alerts prompted a massive response by law enforcement agencies in the affected cities. Snipers were stationed on rooftops of nearby buildings, police with bomb-sniffing dogs patrolled the building's lobbies and roadblocks in all three cities snarled traffic.
In mid-March, the Trump Administration released a detailed spending request that included a large increase for the military and for immigration enforcement and massive cuts to domestic discretionary spending.
The massive drop in law enforcement has prompted a mix of concern and - perhaps surprisingly - hope among some police critics.
