Hard Line Story aired: Wednesday, August 04, 2004
It is estimated that the U.S. border patrol makes a million arrests a year somewhere along the 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Thousands of undocumented immigrants slip in undetected.
Despite several high-profile warnings of foreigners with terrorist ties attempting to come across the boarder, illegal crossings are largely by Mexicans. Some don't make it and may end up in a pauper's grave much like the one in Holtville, Arizona, where 133 are buried.
Ken Ellingwood writes about them and all the players in the drama on the U.S.-Mexico border in his new book. He's a reporter for the Los Angles Times and covered the U.S.-Mexico border from 1998 to 2002.
