AZ Ranchers Face Property Loss, Threats
You couldn't find a better place to have lunch than this cramped, dusty Cochise County cook shack . . . But this is Southern Arizona under siege, so there really is only one subject on the agenda, one issue that dominates all others here: the border with Mexico and the invasion of illegals who, every day and every night,
rush to fill this yawning vacuum," says the Tucson Weekly in a profile of how illegal immigration impacts ranchers in Southern Arizona. "A way of life is being run through a grinder. The way people think, how they go about their days, the way they work, the way they view the government--everything is changing. The smuggling trade has done this, by its sheer vastness, by the corrupting profits it produces." (Photo Leo. W Banks/Tucson Weekly)