News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Bush Heads to Border Smuggling Hotspot

May 18, 7:48 AM EDT
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- Over the past year, this stretch of desert in southwestern Arizona has become the nation's busiest immigrant-smuggling hotspot, a place of increasing banditry, violence, desperation and death.

Border Patrol agents are seeing spikes in arrests of illegal immigrants and cases every day of criminals preying on border crossers.

President Bush will get an up-close look on Thursday when he visits Yuma as part of his push to overhaul the nation's immigration laws and tighten the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border by sending up to 6,000 National Guardsmen in a backup role.

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