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Article: Border town violence: as illegal immigrants flood the United States, a wave of crimes committed by illegals is crashing into border towns and threatening to engulf our entire nation.
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- The New American
- Article date:
- August 7, 2006
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Octogenarian Theresa Murray was forced to move. Drug smugglers fired 30 rounds from an AK-47 at Richard Kozak's ranch house. Other ranchers live in virtual prisons. Their problem? Illegal immigrants and drug gangs raiding their ranches along the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona.
Murray's story was particularly poignant when presidential contender Pat Buchanan told it to a wide audience. Buchanan, who visited her ranch during his presidential campaign in 2000, described Murray's travails this way:
Her house [near Douglas, Arizona] is
surrounded by chain-link fence on the
top of which are masses of razor wire.
Every door and window has bars on ...