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.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Assaults on illegal immigrants on the rise

BY BRYON WELLS, SUN STAFF WRITER

Assaults on illegal immigrants crossing the border by "coyotes" and other "bandit acts" have dramatically increased over those reported last year, U.S. Border Patrol officials said.

In 2005, 18 assaults were reported to Border Patrol versus 203 so far this year, said Border Patrol spokesman Chris Van Wagenen.

The Border Patrol classifies the assaults as "bandit acts," which include physical assaults, robberies, rapes and, Van Wagenen said, he is aware of at least two murders.

The culprits, he said, are usually the smugglers, or "coyotes," who are bringing the people across, and criminals tagging along with groups making their way to the border or waiting in ambush at the border or along the way.

"The smugglers themselves are doing the robbing," said Van Wagenen. "They are always in the right place at the right time."

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