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.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Border authorities worried after spate of violence

JACQUES BILLEAUD

Published: 02.14.2007

PHOENIX - Four recent cases in which gunmen apparently tried to kidnap illegal immigrants from their smugglers underscore an increase in violence in the human trafficking trade, border agents say.

Three people were killed last week north of Tucson in what authorities believe was the latest example of armed smugglers trying to steal migrants from rival traffickers.

Kidnappings - or rip-offs, as federal agents call them - can prove lucrative for smugglers, with ransoms typically ranging from $1,200 to $2,500 per person. The smugglers also don't have to pay employees to recruit would-be border-crossers in Mexico and guides to lead them through the desert.

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