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05-23-2010, 02:34 AM #1
A hard life
on the border: Sheriff, state rep. visit Cochi
A hard life 
on the border: Sheriff, state rep. visit Cochise County, Ariz.
Arizona county is hotbed for illegal immigration along U.S.-Mexico boundary.
By Josh Sweigart, Staff Writer Updated 12:03 AM Sunday, May 23, 2010
COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. — For more than a century, people have come to this arid expanse of land seeking their fortunes. Some found it; many others discovered hardship and danger.
In the 1800s, it was prospectors seeking silver. Cochise County is the home of Tombstone, a boomtown known best for legendary lawmen and daring gunslingers.
Today, it is the scene of a stream of immigrants crossing over illegally from Mexico, with which the county shares an 82-mile border.
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