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...cases - most notably last year's Apprendi v. New Jersey, in which he sided with the majority in holding that juries, and not judges, must make any factual findings on enhancements of penalties under the federal sentencing guidelines - he has found against the government. Another example, from 1987: Arizona v. Hicks. In that case, authorities, responding to reports of a shooting, entered an apartment without a warrant in pursuit of the shooter, saw some expensive stereo equipment while they were there, turned it around to get the serial numbers and found that it had been stolen. Scalia found the obtaining...
Between 6 million and 12 million illegal aliens live in the U.S., the majority are from Mexico and most move through Arizona. It draws more than a third of the illegals, including 14 men who died of dehydration near Yuma after the temperature hit 115[degrees] two weeks ago. But the busiest place in the state is the tiny border town of Naco, a place so anonymous that its name derives from the last two letters of Arizona and Mexico. Naco (pop. 800) is little more than a bar, a school, a couple of streets and 220 border-patrol agents...
...AGENT Manjarrez knows what it means to want to come to the U.S. His father did it on foot at the age of nine. Victor Sr. illegally crossed into Arizona after traveling 800 miles from his hometown of Te-pic, Nayarit, in west-central Mexico. He had only a second-grade education and spoke no English. "I have a 14-year-old son now," says the border patrol chief, "and I cannot imagine him doing the same thing. [My father] didn't have a childhood, but when I ask him why he did it, he says, 'I didn't have...
...police in order to operate on the Mexican side of the border. "They have soplones--snitches--to tell them how much business each coyote is doing. So you have to pay," he says. U.S. officials say people smuggling is nearly as profitable as drug smuggling in some parts of Arizona, and there is some evidence that drug cartels are expanding into the human trade...
...middle of Arizona's Sonoran Desert, the bright-blue flag and the 65-gal. water tank are hard to miss. This is no mirage; it's the work of a small volunteer group called Humane Borders, which last year began to erect emergency watering stations in the desert to help aliens stay alive as they try to enter the U.S. As the Rev. Robin Hoover hauls heavy plastic containers of water from his car, he explains its mission: "We want to take death out of the equation...