{"id":33,"date":"2005-11-10T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2005-12-05T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T21:39:15","slug":"life-on-the-border-americas-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/10\/life-on-the-border-americas-twilight-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the border – America’s Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

This excerpt from today’s Tucson Weekly Magazine, by Leo Banks.<\/p>\n

Sometimes burreros–drug mules–show up at Sonny’s place after dropping their loads. They’ve walked 5, sometimes 10 miles, carrying 50- or 60-pound bales of marijuana on their backs, and they’re dog tired. It’s rough work, wrecking a nation. <\/p>\n

In the old days, they’d walk back to Mexico. Now they call the Border Patrol for a ride. The agents drive them to Nogales for mug shots and a fingerprint check, and if all looks rosy–only border-busting arrests–they’re turned loose back across the line. <\/p>\n

“The Border Patrol sees some of these guys 15 times.” Sonny shrugs. “Why would you walk back when you can get a ride?” <\/p>\n

Twilight zone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We hope that you will take the time to read the entire piece by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

More from Banks on life on the border here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Contact Mr. Banks here. mailbag@tucsonweekly.com <\/p>\n

Contact the President of the United States here. comments@whitehouse.gov <\/p>\n

Contact Governor Perdue to demand that he do all in his power to make Georgia less attractive to illegal immigration here<\/a>: <\/mailbag> and here: 404 656 1776.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This excerpt from today’s Tucson Weekly Magazine, by Leo Banks. Sometimes burreros–drug mules–show up at Sonny’s place after dropping their loads. They’ve walked 5, sometimes 10 miles, carrying 50- or 60-pound bales of marijuana on their backs, and they’re dog tired. It’s rough work, wrecking a nation. In the old days, they’d walk back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}