On Border Violence, Truth Pales Compared to Ideas

Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press
Published: June 19, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Representative Gabrielle Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, announced that the Obama administration would send as many as 1,200 additional National Guard troops to bolster security at the Mexican border, she held up a photograph of Robert Krentz, the mild-mannered rancher who was shot to death on his vast property. The authorities suspected that the culprit was linked to smuggling.

“Robert Krentz really is the face behind the violence at the U.S.-Mexico border,â€