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"A good illegal alien is a dead illegal alien". Debate?

Hank


"Graphic Queen" <xxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.com> wrote in message
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> They say that a record number of illegals have died in the desert this
> year. That is GOOD news but of course these idiot people want them to
> be able to get into this country with no problems. I smile each time I
> hear about another illegal found to be dead.
>
> GQ
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> to The Republic
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> Marchers put focus on migrants
> 6-day trek brings attention to tragic deaths in desert
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> Susan Carroll
> Republic Tucson Bureau
> May. 31, 2005 12:00 AM
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> SASABE - A line of protesters set out Monday from this remote
> U.S.-Mexico border outpost carrying small white crosses with the names
> of the dead written in black pen and decorated with tissue-paper
> flowers.
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> Over a six-day stretch, roughly 50 human rights and religious
> activists plan to walk the 75 miles to Tucson to draw attention to the
> record-setting death toll of undocumented immigrants along the Arizona
> border.
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> Since Friday, Border Patrol agents have found three more bodies,
> bringing the agency's count of deaths in the state since October to
> 80. Medical examiner reports put the number at more than 100.
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> The protest route started on the shoulder of Arizona 286, a hilly
> two-lane highway lined with cattails and mesquite.
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> It passed by the spot where a woman's body was discovered May 22
> during a four-day period in which more than a dozen undocumented
> immigrants died in Arizona.
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> Last year, a young woman carrying a quart of milk and wearing a
> wedding ring died within three miles of the route, according to
> medical examiner's reports.
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> "We want to call attention to this tragedy and focus on ways of
> solving it," said Hector Suarez, a 24-year-old march organizer who
> lives in Tucson.
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> Too often, Suarez said, the immigration debate turns negative and
> there's "no real talk of why they go in the first place and what they
> have to go through to get here."
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> The number of deaths in the Arizona desert has spiked in recent years
> as the state became an increasingly popular corridor for illegal
> immigration.
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> Since the late 1990s, the Border Patrol has systematically increased
> the number of agents in urban areas from Douglas to Yuma, and hundreds
> of thousands of undocumented immigrants started heading for the empty
> deserts.
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> Last year, agents in Arizona made the majority of the 1.1 million
> arrests along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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> During the same time, the bodies of 219 undocumented immigrants were
> found in the state, according to medical-examiner and
> foreign-consulate reports.
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> Jose Garza, a Border Patrol spokesman, said the border strategy is not
> to blame for the deaths.
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> Since October, the agency has logged more than 350 rescues and added
> 24 search-and-rescue agents to help in summer months, he said.
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> "It is not the Border Patrol that is taking these people to these
> areas," Garza said. "It is the alien smugglers."
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> In the past five years, the deaths have spurred movements across the
> state to help undocumented immigrants, including forming volunteer
> rescue squads to search for migrants in distress and building water
> stations in the desert.
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> The second-annual march will continue through Sunday.
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> For information, visit the "No More Deaths" Web site at
> www.nomoredeaths.org/ or call 1-(520)-240-7649.
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> Reach the reporter at susan.carroll@arizonarepublic.com or
> 1-(520)-2007-6007.