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 YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Over the past year, this stretch of desert in southwestern Arizona has become the nation's 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 Bush will 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 U.S.-Mexican border by sending up to 6,000 National Guardsmen in a backup role.
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