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...sections, totaling 12.68 miles, of the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexican border that are most frequently crossed by illegal immigrants. The first is a 5.98-mile stretch from the Pacific Ocean, across Dead Man's Canyon and Washer Woman's Flats to Airport Mesa near Chula Vista, Calif; the second, 6.7 miles of border running along the American side of the Rio Grande through downtown El Paso...
...undocumented aliens") who have crossed the Rio Grande from neighboring Juarez, Mexico, looking for work as maids. Their usual rate: around $25 a week. Because of its proximity to Ju?z, El Paso is the second largest crossing point for undocumented aliens in the U.S. The largest is Chula Vista, Calif., which shares part of its sewerage system with neighboring Tijuana. Aliens have been known to crawl through the common drainage pipes to reach...
Carter's campaign to force Government rulemakers to think before they promulgate may not be the moral equivalent of war, but if he wins a few skirmishes he will be blessed from Bangor to Chula Vista...
Across the winding Texas-Mexican frontier and through the Chula Vista corridor south of San Diego, illegal Mexican immigrants have been entering the U.S. in record numbers in search of jobs and relief from poverty at home. "They have some vague idea that if they get here, they might be able to stay," says Border Patrol Agent Tom Johnson in McAllen, Texas. "It doesn't take much of a rumor to get them started...
Meanwhile, the flow of new immigrants continues. In the heavily traveled Chula Vista corridor between Tijuana and San Diego, beefed-up U.S. patrols picked up 35,100 illegals last month, compared with 21,300 in August of last year. Says a Border Patrol agent: "They are anticipating that they are going to heaven in the U.S. where all the goodies are." Many of them probably never heard of Carter's program. "And even if they knew," says Leonel Castillo, Immigration and Naturalization commissioner, "the prime factor is jobs." No matter why they come, many of their predecessors...