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  • Theft and violence on their minds [from illegal aliens]

    08/07/2005 6:43:46 AM PDT · by Borax Queen · 28 replies · 1,059+ views
    The Arizona Daily Star ^ | 08.07.2005 | Anne Minard
    Karen Krebbs had an armed escort while she was out nights last week at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. She's not a law-enforcement agent and she doesn't dabble in anything illegal. She's a conservation biologist with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, studying an endangered population of nectar-feeding bats. Researchers along Arizona's border these days must balance their desire to study wildlife in the Sonoran Desert - where the chance to observe long-protected desert-dwelling populations proves an irresistible lure - with a growing fear of theft by desperate border crossers or violence from drug and people smugglers. The fears are fueled by...