This special issue of High Country News
takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal
immigration in the West
Magazine
May 15, 2006
This special issue of High Country News takes an on-the-ground look at the human landscape of illegal immigration in the West.
Feature
Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in
Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying
local jobs sends them north of the border
Illegal border crossers face a dangerous journey filled
with heat, dust, flies and thirst, and always the danger of capture
and deportation
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Officer John Schaefer is
one of only two officers patrolling the 860,000 acres of Cabeza
Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a thoroughfare for illegal
immigrants and armed drug smugglers
Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of
contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from
other Latinos
After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash.,
Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency
Essays
The author takes a disconcerting journey with a repo-man
friend to repossess a car somewhere in Navajo Country
Book Reviews
Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican
in America is the story of Rose Castillo
Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran
Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley
In No Country for Old Men, Cormac
McCarthy discards his bitter nostalgia to tell a story set along
the border in the 1980s
In Grand Canyon: Solving Earth’s Grandest
Puzzle, geologist James Lawrence Powell takes a look at
the science behind the Grand Canyon, and the scientists who figured
it out
Writers on the Range
Tired of the rhetorical arguments that pass as
conversation these days, the author proposes it’s time to
take a blockhead to lunch – and listen to what he has to
say
Heard Around the West
What makes Mormon crickets run; Cactus Rescue Crew; tree
murder; Dick Cheney shoot-alike; gun dealers in the West; Dakota
Sioux Scrabble
Dear Friends
Carmella Hensyel joins HCN; Research
Fund acknowledgements; visitor; former interns hit the big time;
Michelle Nijhuis wins journalism award; Jodi Peterson & the
Late Show
Herman Warsh, a beloved former HCN
board member and longtime supporter of the paper, is dead
Letters
Featured stories
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