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...Aerial views taken of Cabeza Prieta in 1998 show an almost pristine wilderness, according to the refuge's land manager, Roger DiRosa. But ever since the late 1990s, when U.S. Border Patrol officials embarked on several aggressive, successful clampdowns near El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California, much of the illegal human traffic has shifted to the wilderness areas around New Mexico and Arizona...
...Like his fellow Arizona border land managers, DiRosa said he is practicing "triage - trying to figure out what to sacrifice to save the whole." Of the 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths, some 450 miles are entrenched, the denuded desert pounded out to "moon dust." Some tracks are 100 yards wide and, even if abandoned, will take several generations to return to wilderness. When it rains, they turn into vast dry creek beds, distorting the rainfall patterns. Beyond the roads are staging areas so polluted with human waste and garbage that DiRosa must bring in commercial cleanup crews...
...everyone is confident that DHS will be so sensitive. At the eastern edge of the border, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where there has been a 30-year struggle to recover wildlife habitat from urbanization, ranching and agricultural clearing, over 95% of the native brush land has been erased. The area is home to a necklace of salvaged brush habitat known as the Lower Rio Grande Wildlife Refuge, 115 tracts along 70 miles of river front, purchased with $70 million in federal funds. "One of the ironies of this proposed fence is it flies in the face...
...immigration issue can't be solved on the border," DiRosa said. "It has to be solved in Mexico City and Washington." He is encouraged by language in the current immigration bill that calls for DHS to comply with environmental standards and coordinate with various federal land management agencies to "minimize the adverse impact on natural and cultural resources from border protection activities...
...devout believer -falls in love with another woman, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). Can he end the affair? If not, what will the reverberations be on his family, his community, his beliefs? Reygadas dramatizes this with small, telling gestures in long-take shots of the countryside, which places the land's natural beauty against the internal conflicts of the three main participants...