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Border town violence: as illegal immigrants flood the United States, a wave of crimes committed by illegals is crashing into border towns and threatening to engulf our entire nation.

The New American

| August 07, 2006 | Kirkwood, R. Cort | COPYRIGHT 2006 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Octogenarian Theresa Murray was forced to move. Drug smugglers fired 30 rounds from an AK-47 at Richard Kozak's ranch house. Other ranchers live in virtual prisons. Their problem? Illegal immigrants and drug gangs raiding their ranches along the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona.

Murray's story was particularly poignant when presidential contender Pat Buchanan told it to a wide audience. Buchanan, who visited her ranch during his presidential campaign in 2000, described Murray's travails this way:

 
   Her house [near Douglas, Arizona] is 
   surrounded by chain-link fence on the 
   top of which are masses of razor wire. 
   Every door and window has bars on  ...
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