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 Stories About: land degradation AND Mexico AND United States
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Law and Border
Immigration scuffles threaten wildlands along the U.S.-Mexico border |
Eliza Barclay |
06 Jun 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the three-way struggle between the U.S. Border Patrol, illegal border crossers, and the natural environment, it's never clear who's winning. A U.S. Border Patrol truck on the move near Douglas, Ariz. Photo: Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. If you ask the Border Patrol, they will tell you they apprehended nearly 1.2 million illegal crossers in fiscal year 2005, and that it w ... |
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| Topics: land degradation, Mexico, United States (all these topics) |
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