Word: arizona
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This anger against the growing flood of 1 million illegal immigrants a year is rising fast among independent-spirited, gun-toting residents in the borderlands of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Over the past three years, the number of illegals streaming across the border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line...
...side of the border. Violence has come as the days get warmer. On May 14, Mexican Eusebio de Haro, 22, was shot in the groin and left bleeding to death after he and a companion approached a rancher near Bracketville, Texas, pleading for a drink of water. Near the Arizona border town of Sasabe, Miguel Angel Palafox, 20, had eluded the border patrol on May 21 and was heading north through hills covered with saguaro cactus--his dream was to reach Phoenix--when he was spotted by two horsemen dressed in black.One of them pulled out a rifle and shot...
...else the party drug was wanted. "Papa didn't need Sammy to teach him to be a gangster. He came by it honestly," explained a source familiar with the group. By all accounts, the ecstasy ring was led by Papa, a premed student on the dean's list at Arizona State University, who used former high school friends to distribute the drug. Soon he began to emulate Gravano's life: he bought a flashy silver BMW M3 and began to hang out at his own choice table in some of the more upscale clubs. But, police say, Papa was still...
...detective to start making buys. "We had to tell her to stop, she was getting so much," said a law-enforcement source. They were also surprised by how widespread the use of the drug was among young suburban kids. "Only 1,000 ecstasy pills were seized in all of Arizona the previous year. Now we were finding it everywhere," says a police source. Shortly after the Phoenix police began climbing the distribution ladder, they began to hear one name over and over. It was Gravano. As the police were dealing with low-level dealers, the Drug Enforcement Agency intercepted...
...more aggressive, showed a lot of force and were more organized. It was almost like they were being schooled." They also began to use Gravano's name to intimidate other dealers and took to carrying guns. Almost overnight, police say, the gang became the top supplier of ecstasy in Arizona. At its height, police estimate, the ring was selling as many as 10,000 pills a week and raking in almost $1 million a month...