A border war: why America is split over its rising numbers of illegal immigrantsBy Edward Alden and Scott Heiser Published: August 29 2005 03:00 | Last updated: August 29 2005 03:00Manuel Chidez held the record at Dean Flake's ranch in Snowflake, Arizona. At its height in the 1970s, when Mr Flake and his brothers ran nearly 1,000 cattle over 200,000 acres of high desert, Mr Chidez was one of dozens of illegal Mexican labourers who would arrive each spring to grow corn and alfalfa to feed cattle in winter. Nineteen times, the US border patrol raided the Flake ranch, hauled...
