US Attempts Crackdown on Trafficking Along Southern Border

Nogales, Arizona, is notoriously known as a “tunnel city," utilized by traffickers to smuggle humans and narcotics into the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol and local authorities have responded with new technologies and a heavier presence in the area to help uncover and destroy the tunnels before they are completed. Many of the migrants who embark north toward Arizona are fleeing the Border Patrol, not running toward them for help -- a stark contrast from the Texas border, where...

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