Illegal aliens snared after crash
BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, SUN STAFF WRITER
PHOTO BY ALFRED J. HERNANDEZ/THE SUN

Two illegal aliens from Mexico were expected to be flown to a Phoenix hospital with severe spinal injuries after a wreck Friday morning, the third alien smuggling crash near Yuma in three days.

A Chevrolet Blazer carrying 14 illegal aliens flew approximately 100 feet after speeding over a canal embankment in an attempt to evade U.S. Border Patrol agents and return to Mexico, according to the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma sector.

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Smugglers say wall will raise prices
BY ROSA MARÍA MÉNDEZ FIERROS
El Universal
Miami Herald, página 1

MEXICALI, Baja California - The wall proposed by U.S. lawmakers is unlikely to stop illegal immigration, but it will give the "polleros" - guides for illegal migrants - the opportunity to raise their prices, say several traffickers.

El Rito, El Chuy and El Coco, "polleros" who work separately in Mexicali offering their services to undocumented immigrants, all agree that a wall between the Mexican city of Mexicali and Calexico, California, will not stop them, but will require them to be more creative.

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Some immigrants must seek amnesty by today
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times

Today is the last day for as many as 100,000 undocumented immigrants to apply for a green card under a 20-year-old amnesty program.

The strange loophole is the result of successive lawsuits that argued that the U.S. government unfairly denied green cards to some immigrants during a 1986 amnesty. But government officials and experts warned that only a specific group of people, the ones who were named in the class-action suits, can apply.

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Border Patrol agents use simple technique to track crossers

FABENS, Texas -- Agent Juan Galaviz had just started his morning patrol shift when a U.S. Border Patrol dispatcher called. A group of illegal immigrants had just tripped one of the thousands of underground motion sensors along the Texas-Mexico border.

Galaviz immediately steered his unmarked Chevy sport utility vehicle toward a patchwork of fields, pecan orchards and irrigation canals in Fabens _ a favorite spot for illegal immigrants sneaking across the border just east of El Paso _ to where other agents were on foot, looking for "signs" left by the group.