Tougher patrol of Mexican border cuts crossing attempts

Posted on December 2, 2008 by mexicoinstitute

Miami Herald, 12/2/2008

It was about 10 p.m. on a frigid Sunday in the Arizona desert when Avelina, a border24-year-old Mexican textile factory worker, heard footsteps and shouting: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents had found her. ”The agents told us they almost missed us, but then they saw us on the cameras,” Avelina recounted recently while locked up in a holding cell with other women. ”Can you imagine? They have cameras in the middle of the mountains!” That’s exactly the message the Border Patrol hopes people like Avelina will spread back to their hometowns: don’t bother; there are too many agents and plenty of cameras.

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