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...companion approached a rancher near Bracketville, Texas, pleading for a drink of water. Near the Arizona border town of Sasabe, Miguel Angel Palafox, 20, had eluded the border patrol on May 21 and was heading north through hills covered with saguaro cactus--his dream was to reach Phoenix--when he was spotted by two horsemen dressed in black.One of them pulled out a rifle and shot Palafox in the neck. The youth wrapped his shirt around the wound and crawled back to Mexico in 115[degree]F heat. "I thought I was going to die in the desert. There wasn...
...actions involved rancher Barnett and his brother Donald, 54, who patrol a 22,000-acre spread about four miles from the Mexican border. It's mesquite country, with sparse grass and sandy creeks that are perfect trails for the coyotes and their clients, who pay $800 apiece to reach Phoenix, $1,500 to Chicago. Along the way, says Roger Barnett, they cut fences and let out cattle, deliberately break water pumps and litter the pasture with garbage that chokes the cattle. Sometimes the coyotes and drug smugglers crossing through are armed. "Out here," says Cochise County sheriff Larry Dever...
...years, he spent long nights trying to sleep in abandoned cars and vacant lots. His father said they were just camping out. Chuck Bacon, his little brother Ryan and his mom and dad would carry blankets into weedy fields around Phoenix, Ariz. They would eat burgers and hot dogs, but there was no campfire under the cloudless desert sky; the food had been microwaved at a convenience store. In the morning, the boys would scrub themselves with liquid soap in a gas-station rest room. In the evening, they would beg for handouts at traffic lights. When Chuck went...
...homeless. At 19, he is well-spoken and clean-cut, a former high school linebacker with his own car and a longtime girlfriend. Last month he graduated from Carl Hayden Community High School with a B average. This fall he'll enroll with a full academic scholarship at Phoenix College, where, he says, he'll try to "rediscover a bit of the childhood I lost...
Bacon says he owes a good deal of his success to a special institution in Phoenix, the Thomas J. Pappas School. An oasis amid boarded-up buildings, in the shadows of downtown skyscrapers, it serves some 750 children in grades K through 10--all of them homeless. A day school, funded by both the state and private donations, it is the largest of America's 40 "schools" for homeless children. Most of them are little more than classrooms in shelters. Pappas, named after a local philanthropist, is the only public school with a $300,000 foundation, new buildings...