On a Border in Crisis, There’s No Bolting a Busy Gate - New York Times

Good article from the times.

If it were up to Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, this tiny village, known more commonly as Las Chepas, would be bulldozed to the ground.

In the last three years, authorities on both sides said, this parched stretch of the United States-Mexico border - where summer temperatures soar to 110 degrees and, until recently, Border Patrol agents have been relatively scarce - has become one of the busiest gateways for illegal migration to the United States. Detentions of migrants here have jumped to more than 41,000 this year, from 23,000 all of last year.

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