And that is the heart of the matter. Here's the way things are going to escalate over the next few years:
Border Hostilities Escalate
"A confrontation of desperate people on both sides of America's border with Mexico threatens to grow increasingly violent, reports CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes, as ranchers in Arizona whose properties have become passageways for illegal migrants take up arms to guard their land from intruders."
"The encounters between ranchers and migrants have sometimes turned violent. Mexican officials claim two migrants have been shot and killed and four others injured. The conflict has escalated into an international controversy. Immigrant rights groups are protesting the violence and the Mexican government is considering a lawsuit against the ranchers."
"If the migrants are unlikely to stop coming, the ranchers are also unwilling to stand down. On George Morin's ranch, the thousands who pass through leave behind trash, clothes, and, sometimes, small bags of drugs. Morin now patrols his property. "I've been a little nervous at times. You run into so many people," he said. "I always have a gun. There's one in the pickup."
"The desperation among the ranchers has led to dangerous confrontations in which ranch hands round up migrants and threaten them at gunpoint. Ironically, efforts to seal the border elsewhere might be heightening tensions on Arizona's borderland ranches. Other sections of the U.S.-Mexican border are blocked by miles and miles of fencing, pushing illegal immigration out into the remote, desert areas where the ranchers live."
"The hostilities in Arizona are part of a trend of increasing violence along America's southern border."
-- CBS Worldwide, June 2000