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, February 08, 2007

Impact of migrant camps is uncertain

4 illegal villages razed in 6 months

By Lisa Petrillo
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 8, 2007

Poway officials have been waging a long-running battle against migrant workers and day laborers who camp in undeveloped areas of the city while they work in area fields, at construction sites and in residential landscaping.

Four migrant encampments have been removed in Poway over the past six months, but the men are getting harder to roust as they move higher into the hills.

The City Council approved a progress report about encampments without comment Tuesday.

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Fire burning 11 sq. miles may be from entrant camp

By Allison Hoffman
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photo by Denis Poroy / the associated press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.25.2006

ALPINE, Calif. — A 7,000-acre wildfire that forced the evacuation of more than a hundred homes near the California-Mexico border may have been caused by an abandoned campfire set by illegal immigrants, authorities said Monday.

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