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An Eagle Point rancher lassoed an alleged bike thief this morning in the parking lot of the Eagle Point Walmart. Robert Borba, 28, said he was at Walmart with a trailer loaded with his horse to pick up some dog food when he heard a woman screaming that someone was trying to steal her bicycle. "I seen this fella trying to get up to speed on a bicycle," Borba said. "I wasn't going to catch him on foot. I just don't run very fast." Borba said he quickly brought the horse out of the trailer, grabbed his rope and let...

Video at link. Quite powerful.

COCHISE COUNTY - News 4 has confirmed that a well-known rancher in Southeastern Arizona has died. Investigators say Rob Krentz was found shot to death Saturday night near his ranch. Saturday morning Krentz reportedly left the ranch on a quad and called home a short time later to report an illegal immigrant, whom he thought was in need of medical attention. That was the last time anyone heard from him. Investigators located Krentz alongside his dog who we understand had been shot. Krentz leaves behind and wife and 3 children. According to the Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of...

They might look like blue jeans and a white T-shirt to anyone else. But for Adolfo "Li'l Grim" Rodriguez, they are an essential part of his daily uniform. His expletive-laced speech, defiant attitude and blue bandana that usually hangs from his back pocket define who he is and what he says he represents. The 19-year-old says he has been a member of a Hispanic street gang for the past eight years. In that time, Rodriguez has survived a bullet and spent months in juvenile detention and the county jail. He proudly admits he's a gang member in Greeley. He was...

Story on the House of Representatives start on hearings on immigrants. The fur will fly on this one.

SAN DIEGO (AP) - U.S. Border Patrol agents stumbled on a cross-border tunnel after it caved in and the asphalt roadway above it collapsed, officials said. The 35-foot-long tunnel, which was found Monday, ended in a patch of vacant land on the U.S. side near the San Ysidro port of entry, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. The reinforced tunnel was about 3 feet by 3 feet and appeared to have been used recently, she said. The exit on the U.S. side was sealed with sandbags...

Fox hopes to reschedule Texas visit Staff and wire reports MEXICO CITY -- A day after Mexico's leader said his cancellation of an August visit to Houston and other Texas cities signaled his willingness to defend his countrymen's human rights, President Vicente Fox hopes to reschedule the visit, according to a spokeswoman. Fox called off the visit Aug. 14 in protest of that day's execution of Mexican citizen Javier Suarez Medina, 33, who had been condemned for the 1988 murder of a Dallas undercover police officer. "When you have commitments, when you believe in values, you live by them," Fox...

Posted on Thu, May. 30, 2002 Missouri's immigrant population rose 87 percent in the 1990s By GRACE HOBSON and GREGORY S. REEVES The Kansas City Star When Denis Zijadic moved to Kansas City from Bosnia in 1999, he chose to live near the Don Bosco Community Center and the help it provides refugees. And when he bought a duplex last year, he chose Gladstone, where he found a home that was affordable and close to North Kansas City's burgeoning Bosnian population. "You want to be close to people in your community," said Zijadic, who at 27 is married and has...