Word: naco
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...urged his clients--11 illegal aliens--to get over the fence quickly. Within minutes, all were safely across the border about five miles (8 km) west of Naco, Ariz.--roughly the same spot where Coronado and his conquistadores made the first recorded crossing in 1540. The smuggler was brushing their footprints from the border road when our four-wheel-drive rental appeared unexpectedly over the hill...
...built unless buildings are bought and knocked down. Tucson Sector also has more paved roads through its desert, making it easier for walkers to reach pickup points. And there are more hamlets along its border. Smuggling is a major part of the local economy in Arizona towns like Naco, where the busiest saloon is decorated with a burlap marijuana sack and a sign for Coyote brand beer. (People who don't know that coyote is slang for a smuggler of illegal aliens won't get the joke, but then those folks have no reason to visit Naco in the first...
...Officer] located three UDAs walking on Arizona and Congdon. All three turned over to USBP [U.S. border patrol] Naco...
Romero has been a coyote in Naco for nine months. He comes from Veracruz and has a wife and two daughters. He used to work in California driving a truck, but says, "It was too much stress, and the money here is better." In a good week Romero can make several thousand dollars, even after he has paid the standard 10% bribe to the Mexican military and 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...
...across himself anymore. He has been caught so many times that the border patrol has him on a list of smugglers who are subject to arrest if caught again. Now he hires runners to do the guiding. And with the buildup of agents, lights and cameras along the Naco border, he's bringing his clients much farther west, to Sasabe, where they have to walk 45 miles across the desert before they reach the first road on the U.S. side. "I tell them they will walk some but not much--maybe six hours." Few realize he is lying, that...