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Due to the heighted security on the border patrol, there has been numerous amounts of innocent people killed. Due to the tension, patrol officers are shooting and killing people who aren't trying to come over to the United States.

This makes me sad. Was it really necessary for that boy to be shot so many times? I understand that border patrol officers have an important job to do and they have the right to defend themselves when rocks are being thrown at them, but to shoot someone 11 times? According to the article the boy was shot 7 times in the back, more than likely while attempting to flee. I do not understand why a man who has his hands restrained behind his back would need to be tazered. These actions are not reasonable or necessary.

Article on search and seizure/racial profiling, not just in Arizona, but what about the rest of the country. US immigration officials are doing this all over the country under the guise of border patrol. Is it fair?

No More Deaths is an organization that reveals human rights violations by the US Border Patrol. It explains how the border patrol denied migrants water and food and abuses them verbal and physical.

this website gives statistical information about the arrests made at the borders of the United States. It also has break downs of how many from each country, and the percentages per country and at which borders.

Cochise County Sheriff, Larry Dever, states that the violence and drug trafficking is "out of Control" in the southeast part of Arizona. He believes that more National Guards personnel need to assist Border Patrol agents in the protection of Arizona borders.

This is Ted Cruz's plan to stop the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexico/America border. He is going to build a wall that actually works and up the number of patrol agents. He is also going to hold the DHS to do their job and keep our borders secure and us safe.

I really do not believe it is immigrants who are making our country bad, what makes our country bad is the ignorance people throw out there with most believing that they "know" everything. I strongly believe that when some says immigrant, in any one's head they automatically think of Mexicans, when in fact its anyone who was not born in the U.S., Canadians, Arabians, Dominicans, etc,.

The Predator is a nickname given to one in a series of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or pilotless drones, operated by the Pentagon, the CIA and, increasingly, other agencies of the U.S. federal government such as the border patrol. Combat-ready UAVs are used mostly in the Middle East.

The Obama administration has revived the maligned illegal immigrant "catch-and-release" policy of the Bush years, ordering Border Patrol agents not to bother arresting and deporting many new illegal immigrants, the head of the agents' labor union revealed Thursday.