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Heightened border security puts park rangers in greater danger.
Byline: Karen Brooks
FORT WORTH, Texas _ On a routine patrol through Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border, law officer Cary Brown pulled over a speeding pickup truck and found an antsy driver with a two-way radio _ and more than $2 million worth of marijuana.
Narcotics interdiction is a major part of Brown's job, but the 26-year law-enforcement veteran doesn't work for the U.S. Border Patrol or any other agency typically connected with such a mission.
Brown is a National Park Service ranger, and it's been a long time since he and the 40 other park rangers have been able to focus on illegal camping and other such violations as they patrol some 300 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Today, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, rangers have shifted their focus to smugglers and fugitives in what has become one of the most dangerous jobs in federal law enforcement.
A recent study by the Justice Department found that park rangers are 15 times ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Heightened border security puts park rangers in greater danger.