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| | Border Control? |
 | | U.S. immigration policy has turned the Arizona desert between Tucson and the border into a nightmare zone of suffering, death, destruction and terrible ironies, and the people who live here are sick to death of it. |
 | | The Border Patrol's apprehensions between Oct. 1, 2003, and Sept. 30, 2004, in the Tucson sector totaled 491,771, or 1,347 per day, but the population of undocumented immigrants "has been growing robustly during most of the period of 'concentrated border enforcement'," according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. |
 | | The Border Patrol set up a "Special Operations" base over the ridge from the tiny settlement of Arivaca without informing inhabitants that 10 large trailers, 10 to 30 trucks, generators, stadium lights and night operations involving helicopters were about to become a feature of their lives for the foreseeable future. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/30/AR2005043000110.html (987 words) |
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