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A few years back, when Mexicans would stagger out of the desert onto Helen Hoffman's cattle ranch, her family would set up a card table for the parched visitors and give them gallons of water, grub and maybe a few days' work. But not anymore. Every morning now, when...
For many Americans who believe citizens have the right to defend their property and privacy with firearms, these ranchers are true patriots, doing a job the government is too weak-kneed to carry out. Ranchers such as Roger Barnett from Douglas, who boasts of capturing illegals on his property--his...
But that propaganda can also carry a nasty edge. Flyers circulated in Douglas by an "R.U.A. Freeman" offer volunteers a chance to join in "ole western individualism" and help ranchers nab aliens. Envoys from the Ku Klux Klan put in an appearance last month at a town meeting in Sierra...
--With reporting by Stella Kim/Seoul and Douglas Waller/Washington
Before taking off Tuesday for a two-week trip to Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sat down with TIME diplomatic correspondent Douglas Waller for a review of the foreign policy issues this administration will be grappling with in its final months. Excerpts from the...