As illegal immigration from Mexico increases, more people
risk their lives crossing the desert into Arizona, while government
agencies, anti-immigration vigilantes and human rights activists
argue over how to handle the influx.
Magazine
October 9, 2000
As illegal immigration from Mexico increases, more people risk their lives crossing the desert into Arizona, while government agencies, anti-immigration vigilantes and human rights activists argue over how to handle the influx.
Feature
Sidebar
In Agua Prieta, Mexico, a group of young men discuss their
experiences crossing the border.
In Douglas, Ariz., rancher and consultant Jerry Bohmfalk
is considering a lawsuit against the Border Patrol, which he
believes makes matters worse by pursuing "economic
refugees."
Alexis Claire, who owns a travel agency in Bisbee, Ariz.,
is part of a revival of the "Sanctuary Movement,' trying to help
today's economic refugees as she helped refugees from Central
America 10 years ago.
Migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert leave litter and
cause ever-increasing damage, as seen in Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument.
Essays
A native-born New Mexico Hispanic points out that
opposition to immigration is not necessarily racist, and says that
immigration problems must be dealt with.
Heard Around the West
Electric bicycles and Lee Iacocca; Iowa CornCam has lots
of fans; man accidentally shoots self on first date; Helen
Chenoweth dodges dead salmon in Montana.
Dear Friends
Thirty-year anniversary party in Boulder; High Country
history; news, visitors and Suckling's first name.
News
Northwestern hatcheries now kill excess hatchery salmon to
prevent captive-bred fish from weakening wild species, but critics,
including some Indian tribes, say this is wasteful and
unnecessary.
Clinton's fire-recovery plan approved with caveats;
Interior Appropriations bill riders dropped; public can now appeal
USFS projects; Colorado gas wells in some areas must use
directional drilling; cyanide from Los Alamos runoff traced to fire
retardant.
Grand Canyon's backcountry and river planning effort ends
abruptly when Park Superintendent Robert Arnberger decides the
process, which includes outfitters, private boaters and wilderness
advocates, is "too contentious."
Wyoming veterinarians are blaming the drought for the
summer's unusually high number of cattle with deadly
sulfate-induced polio.
A green lawsuit forces Black Hills National Forest to
refrain from logging one of its last roadless areas, and to protect
old-growth stands and designate wildlife study areas.
The Western Regional Air Partnership has a plan to clear
the air over the Colorado Plateau, but critics say the plan is much
too soft and likely to prove ineffective.
The Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and
Siuslaw are asking for 95,000 acres of the Siuslaw National Forest
as compensation for land stolen 150 years ago.
Some Western Shoshone are saying that a congressionally
approved land-claims settlement should not be accepted by the
tribe, because a tribal vote two years ago was not
legitimate.
Bush and Gore fight for New Mexico; Sierra Club goes after
Bush in Spanish in N.M.; in Utah, Jim Matheson, D, leads Derek
Smith, R; in Montana, Dems rally Indians; Friends of the Earth
rebut Washington Republicans.
Opinion
A reporter ventures into the tightly knit, secretive world
of cockfighting in New Mexico, one of the few places where it is
still legal to put specially bred roosters into a pit and watch
them fight each other to the death.
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