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Arizona Daily Star Border Videos Mini doc: Border deaths persist: Officials and non-government agencies on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border work tirelessly during the summer months to save the lives of illegal entrants crossing into the United States through the remote Arizona desert. But despite all of their efforts, illegal entrants still die at an alarming rate. 2007-06-24  Protesters hold immigration rally Downtown: A crowd of about 2,000 pro-immigration protesters rallied at Armory Park on May 1, 2007. They were met by a handful of anti-illegal immigration activists. 2007-05-01  Mini doc: Crossing the Urban Corridor: Every day hundreds of illegal immigrants attempt to cross in the urban setting between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. Most are caught; some make it through. 2007-04-22  960 lbs. of pot found at Nogales port: Customs and Border Protection officers discovered about 960 pounds of marijuana hidden inside concrete pillars in the back of a tractor-trailer Wednesday at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales. 2007-03-29  Rocky Point Virtual Tour: Take a sky-high virtual tour of development in Rocky Point, Mexico. 2007-02-10  Minutemen building fence on private ranch: Near Naco, Arizona, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is funding the construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. 2006-12-09  Sheriffs sound off on illegal immigration: Arizona's border sheriff's talk about illegal immigration. 2006-12-05  Preview: The Star's four-part series on border security  Mini doc: The legacy of Gatekeeper and Hold the Line: Proposed efforts to seal the border are modeled largely upon the systems in place in San Diego and El Paso. Will 'Gatekeeper' and 'Hold the Line' work across the entire border? Officials in the two cities explain how the strategies work and what their successes and failures have been. 2006-09-25  Mini doc: Terrain, the great equalizer: Terrain is the great equalizer in the border security debate. It hampers illegal entrants and border patrol agents equally in their respective efforts to sneak across and secure the border. 2006-09-24  Mini doc: Port crackdowns affect border towns: Unoffical ports of entry known as Class B ports used to exist all over the southwestern border. They were closed in the mid-80s, but it's only since 9/11 the closures have really been enforced. 2006-09-24  Border voices: Laredo law enforcement: Law enforcement officers in Laredo, Texas, talk about how they keep their city safe despite a raging drug war across the border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. 2006-09-25  Border voices: Small-business owners discuss how tightened security has affected business: Martin Silva of El Paso and Raul Arce of San Ysidro, Calif., discuss how the recent crackdown on the border has affected sales. 2006-09-25  Border voice: Joe Marini, Holtville, Calif.: Holtville, Calif., resident Joe Marini talks about a local cemetery where hundreds of bodies of unknown illegal entrants who died crossing into the U.S. are buried. 2006-09-22  Border voice: Kathy Billings, Superintendent, Organ Pipe National Monument: Organ Pipe's Kathy Billings talks about the dangers of working in the park, which abuts the border, and about the 30 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers that were recently erected there. 2006-09-18  Border voice: Ofelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham Nation: Tohono O'odham tribe member Ofelia Rivas talks about how the post-9/11 efforts to secure the border has cut members of the tribe off from their land through which the international border runs. 2006-09-18  Border vignette: Walking the bridge in El Paso: Watch illegal entrants get deported back to Mexico from El Paso, Texas. 2006-09-18  Border vignette: Life on the line in San Luis, Ariz. Rodrigo Nuñez lives 100 feet from the U.S. - Mexico border in San Luis, Arizona. He talks about his interactions with both illegal crossers and Border Patrol. 2006-09-18  Border vignette: The end of the line Star Online Producer Andrew Satter sends this video postcard from the mouth of the Rio Grande as it spills into the Gulf of Mexico. 2006-08-08  Border vignette: Texas-sized Terrain: U.S. Border Patrol agent Roland Ogg takes us on a tour of the sometimes trecherous terrain in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, 40 miles west of Brownsville. Watch out for that hydrilla! 2006-08-07  Border vignette: The flag raiser: Rosendo Evaro, postmaster for Redford, Texas, talks about his many careers and explains how his customers know he is open for business. 2006-08-03  Border vignette: Sidewinder: Star reporter Brady McCombs captured this footage of a sidewinder slithering across the U.S. - Mexico international border near San Luis, Arizona. 2006-07-30  Border vignette: The town that has eyes: It's a ghost town on the U.S. - Mexico border that was once a thriving border crossing. Now it's just creepy. 2006-07-29  Border vignette: Gringoville?: Most people who travel to Rocky Point from Southern Arizona pass through Lukeville, the international port of entry. 2006-07-25  Border vignette: They cross the 'most polluted river in the United States' While on a ride along with the El Centro Sector Border Patrol, near Calexico, California, Star Reporter Stephanie Innes documents a group of entrants trying to cross illegally into the United States through an extremely polluted river. 2006-07-23  Border vignette: Smuggler's Gulch: Star border reporter Brady McCombs reports from a canyon near the San Diego-Tijuana border that is difficult for Border Patrol to monitor. 2006-07-21  Voices from an immigration rally: Thousands of people from Tucson and surrounding areas marched from a South Side church to Armory Park in Downtown as part of a nationwide protest against proposed legislation that would make it a felony for illegal immigrants to be in the United States. We walked with the protesters to hear what motivated them to take to the streets. 2006-04-10  Sen. John McCain on Immigration: Sen. John McCain tells the editorial board of the Arizona Daily Star that it's in the United States's best interest to bolster the Mexican economy and that Congress is just as much to blame for the state of affairs on the border as is the president. 2005-08-23  The Minuteman Project: The monthlong Minuteman Project began on April 1 when volunteers monitoring the border for illegal crossers met at Tombstone's Schieffelin Hall. 2005-04-02  Border Planes: See the Border Patrol's Hermes 450 in action (Video from the U.S. Border Patrol).2004-06-26  Border Dogs: The U.S. Border Patrol has two new helpers in its efforts to sniff out illegal entrants.
2004-05-07
 Mariposa Port of Entry, Nogales: Thousands of passengers. About 4,800 cars, trucks, vans, and buses. Nine pounds of methamphetamine. And four avocados. It's all in a day's work for Customs and Border Protection agents at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, Ariz.2003-09-14  Land of the 'Shadow Wolves': The "Shadow Wolves" of the U.S. Border Patrol track smuggling suspects across part of the remote Tohono O'odham reservation.2001-03-21 |
