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, March 31, 2007

Sheriff: Feds fail to address 'epidemic' of border violence

CLAUDINE LoMONACO

Published: 03.31.2007

Violence associated with human and drug smuggling along the border has reached "epidemic proportions," Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik said Friday.

He sharply criticized the federal government for misdirecting Homeland Security funds and not sufficiently supporting local law enforcement agencies, which are overwhelmed.

Dupnik spoke at a news conference about a fatal ambush Friday west of Green Valley of a pickup truck packed with at least 23 illegal immigrants, including three small children. Two people were killed by gunfire, and at least one was injured. It was the second such incident in the past two months.

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