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Article: Dangerous liaison; Mexican police join drug lords in border trade.(PAGE ONE)(BORDER WAR: ON THE FRONT LINE AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2002
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Byline: Jerry Seper, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
SONOYTA, Mexico - This isolated area of the U.S.-Mexico border, a 100-mile-wide stretch of wild desert between the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Coronado National Forest, has become one of America's newest drug corridors.
Mexican drug lords, backed by corrupt Mexican military officers and police officials, will move tons of marijuana, cocaine and heroin this year over rugged desert trails to accomplices in Phoenix and Tucson for shipment to willing buyers throughout the United States.
Most of the smuggling routes pass through the Tohono O'odham Nation, a sprawling Indian reservation, where ...