Word: arizona
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...Herrmann, the bar is also set high as a leader of the team, especially in the absence of two-way star Trey Hendricks ’04, who was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks last year. He describes Hendricks as “maybe the best hitter I’ve ever played with...
What was done on spring break stays on spring break. Except the hazy drunken memories (and the half Arizona State child) which will haunt you forever. Sorry about that...
More than 500,000 illegal aliens were caught last year in southern Arizona alone, accounting for 52% of all undocumented migrants detained in the U.S. in 2004. But Simcox, fed up with what he sees as government inaction in the face of lawlessness and a threat to national security, plans to do something about it. As head of a two-year-old group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April...
...President Vicente Fox has called groups like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush said last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...
...request that all Americans remain vigilant--and, in the process, providing a release valve for popular outrage. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, meanwhile, tell TIME they will announce a "significant increase in resources" this week to address the influx of illegal immigrants still crossing by land in Arizona. --By Brian Bennett