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, December 18, 2007

U.S. plans entrant patrols in N. Arizona

By Arthur H. Rotstein

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are intent on hitting the road in their fight against illegal-entrant smuggling organizations.

Plans are in the works to establish a permanent agency presence in Northern Arizona. That's because smugglers make such frequent use of Interstates 17 and 40 as they transport entrants from drop houses in the Phoenix area to disperse across the country north, east and west of Arizona.

The idea has been percolating for the last year, punctuated with a successful 90-day trial run last winter in which four agents worked out of Flagstaff.

Covering areas including Kingman and Bullhead City, they worked with local authorities, identified and interdicted some local smuggling organizations and even helped rein in gang operations in Beaver Dam, near the Nevada and Utah borders.

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