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Yuma: 'The devil's highway' for immigrants.
Byline: Michael Martinez
May 18--YUMA, Ariz. -- Evoking an Old West lawman, the 6-foot-5 sheriff with a bushy white mustache remembered how this border community lost its innocence over illegal immigration five years ago this month.
Fourteen immigrants perished crossing "the devil's highway," as one author dubbed it. The tragedy remains one of the most sensational incidents of unlawful desert crossings. Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden, 59, and his deputies collected the bodies, including four Ogden put in the bed of his new pickup. Locally, the dead are known as "the Yuma 14." "That was the catalyst that said, 'Damn, we've got to do something about this,'" Ogden said Wednesday. Since then, however, illegal immigration has done nothing but get worse, according to several local officials. The Yuma County area is on a record pace for arrests of illegal immigrants, a…
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