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Tighter border enforcement has forced narcotics smugglers to share desert routes north with migrants, adding to the perils of the illegals’ journey and perhaps causing a fall in Mexico's emigration, reports the L A Times.
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"The burreros [drug-runners] sit there together with the migrants during the day and then attack and rob them after they move on at night," Angel de Jesus Pereda, a coordinator for the governmental immigration agency Grupo Beta, told the Times.
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Newsmax.com - Drug Cartels Scaring Illegals from Crossing Border (http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/drug_cartels_immigration/2009/07/20/237736.html - broken link)
I don't like illegals of any kind but if one group intimidates and hassles the other when it comes to committing a shared crime, it's alright with me.