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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.

Monday, October 16, 2006

New ICE agent must deal with smuggling, politics

Daniel González

The Arizona Republic
Oct. 16, 2006 12:00 AM

SAN ANTONIO - The new head of immigration enforcement for Arizona has his work cut out for him.

Alonzo Peña, whose first day on the job is Tuesday, is parachuting into the middle of the nation's busiest human smuggling corridor and into a political tempest.

As special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona, it will be his job to battle highly sophisticated smuggling networks that warehouse thousands of undocumented immigrants a day and violent gangs that kidnap immigrants and hold them for ransom.

That's not all. In Arizona, the nation's main gateway for illegal immigration and a major destination point for undocumented immigrants, Peña will be responsible for carrying out the government's new effort to crack down on employers who knowingly hire workers who are here illegally.

But his most pressing challenge will be rebuilding bridges and mending sore feelings. Peña is inheriting the job from Roberto Medina, the beleaguered former head of ICE investigations in Arizona.

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