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Results for keyword: illegal immigrants

Shadow Wolves track down smugglers on the Arizona-Mexico border

An elite team of Native American customs agents, the Shadow Wolves use their tracking skills to find drug smugglers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

by Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jan 23, 2012
A frantic lion meets the border wall

The U.S.-Mexico border wall does nothing to stop either drugs or illegal immigrants, but it sure can frustrate roaming wildlife, including mountain lions.

by Janay Brun, Nov 29, 2011
Young, All-American, Illegal

Young undocumented immigrants thrive in the U.S. -- until they turn 18 and the law cracks down.

by Daniel Glick, Aug 16, 2010
Bloody Mystery Lingers in the Desert

The unsolved murder of rancher Robert Krentz adds to the already-high tension along the Arizona-Mexico border.

by Michel Marizco, Jun 15, 2010
Pulp friction

Philip Caputo's seventh novel, Crossers, amounts to little more than the literary equivalent of a popcorn flick.

by Brian Kevin, Mar 15, 2010
A hard-fought immigration victory

Lioudmila Krotova's family, Jewish refugees from the former Soviet Union, fought for years to stay in the U.S.

by Krista J. Kaprolos, Oct 26, 2009
Bordering on injustice

Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants.

by Don Waters, Sep 14, 2009
The persistence of a golden time in the West

Seventy years after the publication of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, migrant workers still roam the West, eking out a tough living in its orchards and farm fields.

by David Frey , Apr 24, 2009
Whatever we do about illegal immigration, somebody suffers

Philip Cafaro takes a thoughtful look at the impacts of illegal immigration on Colorado’s construction trade.

by Philip Cafaro, Jan 28, 2008
Borders and saints

Latino writer Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the border and remembers the women in his family who inspired him.

by Jennie Lay, Oct 29, 2007