Word: yuma
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President Bush returned to the Mexico border at Yuma, Arizona, Monday to reprise last year's role as buggy-riding border sheriff. And as with every piece of White House theater, this one has a very specific audience in mind: the anti-immigration right wing of the Republican Party. It is this deeply skeptical crowd Bush must win over if he is to get the last potential domestic policy achievement of his Presidency: "comprehensive immigration reform." And, with Congress' summer recess and the 2008 Presidential primaries approaching, time is running...
...Bush spent most of his time in Yuma talking about his achievements in combating illegal immigration: nearly doubling the number of border guards, funding hundreds of miles of border fence, a significant uptick in border arrests and so on. He also talked about progress in cracking down on illegal hiring of undocumented workers by restaurants, hotels, construction and food processing plants, among other employers. Burnishing his credentials as a law-and-order border guard is key to the effort...
...Fish department. Game and Fish controls all of Arizona’s state parks; essentially, it is the state’s interior department, and it regulates everything from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be?...
...Miller's--straits before they cross borders for care. Retirees, especially the snowbirds who winter in South Texas and Arizona, have turned Mexican towns like Nuevo Progreso (pop. 9,125; dentists, 70), in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Los Algodones (pop. 15,000; doctors and dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers, Health Net and Blue Shield, for the past few years...
...vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...