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President's destination is U.S.-Mexican border's smuggling hotspot.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: JACQUES BILLEAUD
Over the past year, this sandy stretch of desert in southwestern Arizona has become the United States' busiest immigrant-smuggling hotspot, a place of increasing banditry, violence, desperation and death.
Border Patrol agents are seeing spikes in arrests of illegal immigrants and cases every day of criminals preying on border crossers.
President George W. Bush will be get an up-close look on Thursday when he visits Yuma as part of his push to overhaul the nation's immigration laws and tighten the 2,000-mile (3,220-kilometer) U.S.-Mexican border by sending up to 6,000 National Guardsmen in a backup role.
An eastern Arizona stretch that includes Douglas and Nogales used to be the busiest spot along the border for immigrants trying to slip across. But…
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