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...pages me at home," she says. During the crisis, she received e-mail from deaf people all over the country, from Seattle, Miami, Santa Fe. Many had no personal connection to her or the school. Several volunteered to drop what they were doing and fly to Washington to help patrol the dorms. Now that she has had time to ponder, she is left with the odd impression that nationwide, "deaf people have probably become tighter because of what was happening here...
...didn?t call the police, although in retrospect I wish I had. That spectacular imbecile may have gone on to kill or maim - and while I am not sure the North Carolina highway patrol would have been particularly sympathetic to my self-righteous outrage, I like to think a carefully-considered complaint might have made a difference...
Romero doesn't go 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...
...water towers are the product of an uneasy peace between local clergy and the U.S. border patrol. It was the feds who guided Hoover's group to the best sites for the tanks, at the confluence of three popular trails coming up from Mexico. "We are allies in that effort," says David Aguilar, the patrol's special agent in charge in Tucson. And no wonder. As border-patrol agents shut down safer avenues through cities and towns, coyotes and their charges are pushed farther into the desert to cross, taking greater risks. That has discouraged some immigrants from making...
Neither Carney nor Fife is particularly happy about the border patrol's informal ties to his group. Fife says it's "the moral equivalent of starting a forest fire and then going in to rescue a couple of people." The clergymen say they will not turn in to the INS anyone who comes to them for aid. Border agent Aguilar sounds just as wary of the partnership. Saving lives is one thing, he says. Helping aliens get across is something else. Says Aguilar: "There is a line they must not cross...