Thread: Beefed-up patrols send people into Arizona's remote areas

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Broken borders: Beefed-up patrols send people into Arizona's remote areas
Part one of three.
By Nick Miroff, CORRESPONDENT
Inside Bay Area

EDITOR'S NOTE: Last month, the governors of Arizona and New Mexico declared a state of emergency in response to the alarming levels of drug smuggling, human trafficking and criminal violence that besiege rural counties along the U.S.-Mexico border. With the debate over border security and illegal immigration reaching a new boiling point, we offer this look at life in the region through the eyes of the families who live there. In a three-part series, we'll visit both sides of "the line" between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico â€â€

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Article Last Updated: 9/19/2005 07:29 AM


Broken Borders: Pot dealers blamed for violence

By Nick Miroff, CORRESPONDENT
Inside Bay Area

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second story in a three-part series, in which we visit both sides of "the line" between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico - one of the border's most remote, and troubled, stretches. (Part one available here.)
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico â€â€