Amazing how are U.S southern boarders stay open after 9-11
Makes you wonder what is up , and how many illegal's have entered that were terrorists from Iraq, Iran, Syria, ....
Are we not a Sovereign Nation?
Border Crossings Turn Deadly
Story Posted: 06-10-2002 at 12:09 AM
Last Modified: 06-10-2002 at 12:09 AM
At least seven illegal immigrants have died since Thursday while crossing the U.S.-Mexican border southwest of Tucson.
As the heat reached unbearable levels, officials scrambled to rescue at least 70 other immigrants in peril.
Border officials say at least eight illegal immigrants have been hospitalized since Thursday. Officials say a suspected smuggler was arrested Saturday and was in Border Patrol custody. Officials say six of the seven known victims died on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
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Five Bodies Found in Arizona Coal Shipment
Story Posted: 01-30-2002 at 9:52 AM
Last Modified: 01-30-2002 at 4:23 PM
Five Mexican nationals were found dead Wednesday after a railroad coal car released its cargo at a power plant in southeastern Arizona, authorities said.
Officials with the Cochise County Sheriff's Department said the men appeared to have stowed away in the car.
The Burlington Northern Santa Fe train originated from a mine in Lee Ranch, N.M., on Tuesday and made a stop in Deming, N.M., before heading to its Willcox destination.
Deming is about 35 miles north of the Mexican border.
Three of the men were residents of Hidalgo del Parral, a small town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, said Miguel Escobar Valdez, Mexican consul in Douglas.
He identified them as Carmelo Monarrez Ramirez, about 39, and two brothers, Roman Jimenez Martinez, about 27, and Ruben Jimenez Martinez, about 30.
He said the men apparently asphyxiated in the coal.
Authorities were not sure if the victims were illegal immigrants.
Officials at the county Medical Examiner's office were conducting autopsies to determine how the men died.
A worker discovered the bodies at the Arizona Electric Power Cooperative after the car dumped its 100-ton coal shipment onto a conveyor belt about 2:15 a.m., said sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas.
Workers at the plant did a routine visual inspection of the shipment when it arrived but didn't see the men, according to Capas.
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