Reuters and BBC cite ongoing illegal immigration to US via 'porous' border, 'Arizona a major route for Mexicans hauling drugs and illegal immigrants to US,' 'Arizona's porous desert is popular route for Mexican drug traffickers'

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2/7/13, "Mexican teen shot in back in clash with U.S. border police: autopsy," Reuters via Chicago Tribune by Tim Gaynor

"Arizona is on a major route for Mexican smuggling networks hauling drugs and illegal immigrants to the United States, and running guns and cash profits back south to Mexico."

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2/8/13, "Mexico boy shot in back by US patrol, post-mortem shows," BBC 

"Arizona's porous desert is a popular route for Mexican drug traffickers." AP photo in BBC article

"The US authorities said soon after the 10 October 2012 incident that the suspected drug smugglers first abandoned a haul of drugs, ran back across the border and then started throwing stones at the border patrol.
It said that the border agent had opened fire only after the suspects ignored orders to stop."

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 Trash on US side of Arizona border, Rape Tree in background, photo 3/16/09, Now Public



3/16/09, “Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border: Grim Reminders"

Above and below, "on the U.S. side of the border littered with women’s undergarments." "Rape Tree" holding panties of young girls raped by Mexican smugglers. photo from Now Public, 3/16/09

 

Now Public, 3/16/09: "A recent report from the Cronkite News Service, a student-run news service of Arizona State University, shed the national spotlight on a new immigration problem plaguing the desert border towns of Arizona: so called “rape trees,” trees on the U.S. side of the border littered with women’s undergarments. Mexican drug cartel members and the coyotes, who smuggle immigrants across the border, are believed to rape the women as soon as they enter U.S. territory to instill fear, intimidate and control them. When the coyote-rapists are finished, they hang the women’s panties from the trees as trophies to mark their brutal conquests. These “rape trees” are becoming more common along the Arizona border counties of Pima and Cochise, as coyotes and drug cartel members find human trafficking more lucrative than drug smuggling. With the shrinking U.S. economy and high un-employment rate, fewer and fewer Mexican immigrants are crossing the borders for work. As the Mexican authorities push back against the drug cartels, it’s getting harder to smuggle drugs across the border. The result is the increased smuggling of young women, who are immediately forced into prostitution and slavery."

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