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Immigration

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Created 19 Dec 2005 | Last updated 30 Jul 2007

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  • Photo by Alex Jones..A raft full of illegal immigrants crosses the Rio Grande from a park in Cuidad Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas to Roma, Texas on June 14. The immigrants landed at the base of the Roma Bluffs, where the US Border Patrol maintains a watch tower, but no agents were on patrol at the time.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..An illegal immigrant walks up stairs from the Rio Grande toward the Roma Bluffs after crossing the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas on June 14. After seeing a photographer ahead, the immigrant turned around and disappeared into the brush.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Illegal immigrants run to get into a getaway car on top of the Roma Bluffs in Roma, Texas after crossing the Rio Grande from Ciduad Miguel Aleman on June 14. Cell phones made it easy for the smugglers to coordinate activities on the US and Mexican sides of the border.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..US Border Patrol agents F. Hernandez, left, Joe Rosales, and O. Villarreal, right, walk through the town of Fronton after a drug seizure on May 29. A pickup truck was carrying a load of marijuana up River Rd. from the Rio Grande when it got stuck, and the driver swam back into Mexico, said the agents.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..A Border Patrol unit makes its way through a ranch in Brooks County being patrolled by the Minutemen on October 27.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Minutemen Civil Defense Corps volunteer Dave R. Summers, a retired school administrator from Dallas, surveys the banks of Rio Grande just East of the Pharr International Bridge on Thursday afternoon. Summers said that a spotting he made early Thursday morning helped the Border Patrol apprehend 21 illegal immigrants.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Minutemen Civil Defense Corps volunteer David Mitchell talks with a passing Border Patrol agent in a field just East of the Pharr International Bridge on Thursday afternoon.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..US Border Patrol agent J. Garcia looks across the Rio Grande into Mexico from a brushy area west of Hidalgo while on patrol on May 15.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Undocumented workers harvest watermelons in a field outside of Edinburg on June 15. The workers are paid per ton of watermelons harvested in a process that involves two passes over the same land -- the first to cut the good watermelons from their vines and place them where they can be easily harvested, and the second to toss them into a truck to be carried to market.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..An illegal immigrant from Monterrey, Mexico harvests watermelons in a field outside of Edinburg on June 15. The man, who requested not to be identified, said he has spent the last 7 years working in the Rio Grande Valley with his wife because he could not find work in his native Mexico, and would gladly travel farther north into the US to work if he could get past the highway checkpoints.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Vendors wait for customers in the middle of the Hidalgo - Reynosa international bridge on June 20, as a dirty sign above them marks the international boundary between the US and Mexico.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..German Danilo Figueroa said he left the Honduran capital city of Tegucigalpa in May, and spent 3 months hopping trains through Mexico to reach the United States border. After swimming across the Rio Grande, he hitched a ride to the Sullivan City Police station, where he turned himself in to be picked up by the Border Patrol on August 10. Under a proposed new program, Figueroa and others from countries other than Mexico that enter the United States illegally would no longer enjoy the easy entry that they do today.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..US Border Patrol Assistant Chief Patrol Agent administers the oath to an incoming class of US Border Patrol recruits inside Rio Grande Valley Sector headquarters on June 14. The class will then head to the Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico for intensive training, and statistically only 66% will graduate and receive a post along the US Border.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas addresses US Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar as Aguilar leaves a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition on June 1. Salinas has been a vocal critic of plans to build a border fence to help control illegal immigration.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..Al Garza, leader of the Minuteman Project, addresses a crowd gathered at a meeting of the Rotary Club at the Harlingen Country Club on Friday afternoon. Garza, who spoke at length about the project's history and its plans to start patrolling the Rio Grande Valley, said that he is not anti-immigration. "There's a main door that you enter through -- just stop and sign the guestbook. That's all we ask."
  • Photo by Alex Jones..A group of Nicaraguan immigrants wait at Albergue Guadalupe in Reynosa on Tuesday afternoon after a failed attempt at crossing into the United States the night before. Clockwise from lower right: Eloy Sandoval, age 14, Ronald Quiroz, age 28, Eddy Sandoval, age 18, Juan Sandoval, age 41, and Victor Diaz, age 39. Pedro Javier Rodriguez left Managua with them on March 16, but disappeared when the group was attacked on Monday night while trying to cross the Rio Grande near the Hidalgo International Bridge.
  • Photo by Alex Jones..McAllen High School student Greg Cristobal carries a sign protesting House Resolution 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, down Broadway St. in downtown McAllen on Friday afternoon.
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