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.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Sheriff upgrades border crime unit

Associated Press
Dec. 31, 2007 06:17 AM

TUCSON- Gangs of bandits preying on smugglers and illegal immigrants are responsible for borderland homicides more than doubling in 2007 in unincorporated Pima County, the sheriff's office said.

This year, eight of 26 slayings were related to border-area attacks on illegal entrants, sheriff's homicide Sgt. Jesus O. Lopez said.

Last year, the Sheriff's Department said it had four such killings.

The escalating violence led Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik to form a border crime unit in July consisting of six deputies and a sergeant.

On Dec. 9, the unit was upgraded to a border crime section headed by a lieutenant with two sergeants and 14 deputies, said Bureau Chief Richard Kastigar, the Pima County Sheriff's Department's head of investigations.

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