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, February 13, 2007

Permanent checkpoint angers S. Az residents

Border Patrol tries to keep immigrants off I-19

BLAKE MORLOCK

Published: 02.13.2007

Rural Arizonans are finding smuggler-on-smuggler warfare erupting at their doorsteps, and residents of one community fear a permanent Interstate 19 checkpoint will make it worse.

Border Patrol agents tried recently to reassure Tubac residents who feared a permanent border checkpoint would send floods of potentially dangerous illegal immigrants through their neighborhoods.

As they met Jan. 15, one resident got a phone call from his wife: Two men with gunshot wounds were bleeding at his front door. Two others had been shot to death nearby.

Drug runners had opened fire on each other not far away.

Smuggler-related violence - sometimes over loads of illegal immigrants, sometimes over drugs - is erupting more frequently in southern Arizona, with five people killed in the past 10 days.

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