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This morning, truck No. 11 in line to the U.S. belongs to Martin Castano. His dented Chevy pickup, loaded with pinatas shaped like Betty Boop and Winnie the Pooh, is dwarfed next to a semi carrying 15 tons of yellow bulldozer claws. Castano usually makes the trip twice a day and can pocket $150 each time. But because it would be easy to stuff marijuana inside Betty or Winnie, he is always waved over for inspection. Castano says he trusts his 12 employees to stay away from the drug smugglers, but he pays his men only $50 a week...
...group of 12 immigrants through his night-vision goggles. He radios directions to three colleagues, who are out in the mesquite on foot and closing in on the aliens. "They don't even know we are here yet," whispers Lagasse, who has turned off his headlights and allowed his truck to roll to a halt without hitting the brakes. "It's just like hunting...
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...
...smaller portion of the aquifer. El Paso is looking to import water from 150 miles away. Druglords have killed so many people here that victims' families--on both sides of the Rio Grande--have their own support groups. Tuberculosis and hepatitis flow freely back and forth--and beyond. "The truck driver with TB who sits in our restaurants today will be in Denver or Chicago tomorrow," says Jose Manuel de la Rosa, regional dean for Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center. "Our problems will be dispersed throughout the country...
...Ethnic minorities make up only 6% of the population, but immigrants have more than doubled from the annual 90,000 during the early 1990s. The suffocation of 58 Chinese being smuggled across the English Channel in a refrigerator truck last year added fuel to a debate about who should be entitled to enter and remain in the country. Is Britain a "soft touch"? Does it need more foreign workers, or fewer? There is no consensus. William Hague has made the temporary detention of asylum seekers a central plank of his campaign, responding to anxieties in some towns where asylum seekers...