U.S. Department of Homeland Security databases show that Noriega Rios had been arrested and repatriated to Mexico five times between 2004 and 2005 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol agents, and she had no U.S. criminal convictions, ICE officials said.

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His prior hotel was in the mountains of New Hampshire at the end of a country road that somehow didn't show up on the databases.

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As for databases that do include the whole run of U.S. history, those at measuringworth.com show an increase in national output of 43% from 1878 to 1882, a peacetime period.

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