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Over 60 undocumented immigrants are in federal custody after being caught this afternoon by Border Patrol agents The 63 immigrants were detained just north of Mission. The stash house was found by local and federal authorities working together on Taylor and 6 Mile Line. Border Patrol said an investigation from a previous smuggling case lead them to this bust. San Juan police assisted the agents around noon when they found the immigrants packed inside a house. Two of the people detained are persons of interest, meaning they could be smugglers themselves. Authorities the condition of the stash house was better...

Gov Brewer says most of the illegals are hualing Drugs and doing other crimes.

Electrocution, gang rape, sodomy, starvation, pistol whipping, amputation and other atrocities are all daily occurrences for those who thought they had paid the full fee needed to get into America,. This and more is all going on right next door to many unsuspecting citizens living in the suburbs. When Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, and other politicians decided to force banks into giving loans to people who could not afford them so they could purchase homes, the housing market was bound to eventually come tumbling down. Well today, millions of foreclosed homes sit empty in suburbs all across America. Most...

Electrocution, gang rape, sodomy, starvation, pistol whipping, amputation and other atrocities are all daily occurrences for those who thought they had paid the full fee needed to get into America,.  This and more is all going on right next door to many unsuspecting citizens living in the suburbs.  When Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, and other politicians decided to force banks into giving loans to people who could not afford them so they could purchase homes,  the housing was bound to eventually come tumbling down.  Well today, millions of foreclosed homes sit empty in suburbs all across America.  Most have...

Two-thirds of the 93 people arrested during the first day of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest crime and immigration sweep were believed to be illegal immigrants. The two-day sweep is being run in an area of west Phoenix with a high number of "drop houses" where smugglers hide immigrants who have been sneaked into the country. It's the 15th sweep that Arpaio has conducted since early 2008. During the sweeps, deputies flood an area of a city _ in some cases heavily Latino areas _ to seek out traffic violators and arrest other alleged lawbreakers. Critics say deputies racially...

"So-called "stash houses" or "drop houses" are all over Phoenix, Arizona. These are buildings that human smugglers use to hide illegal immigrants. I've come here to meet Alonzo Pena, the special agent in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix. We're about to take a drive around the city to see some of these stash houses. But first, Agent Pena shows me a city map with little red dots showing where these houses are located. The map is peppered with so many dots that it looks like it's been used in target practice at a firing range....

As federal authorities continue their crackdown on immigrant smugglers operating in Phoenix, smugglers are scattering drop houses in more rural communities to avoid detection, immigrations officials said. Two immigrant drop houses discovered in Sierra Vista this month are just another example of that. "The level of enforcement in urban areas has forced smuggling organizations to move to other areas to accomplish their ends," said Russell Ahr, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix. Drop houses are hiding places for smugglers bringing in illegal immigrants, serving as a stopover point for immigrants headed elsewhere. Ahr said there have...

<p>More than 200 undocumented immigrants were found Wednesday morning at a large uspcale home in south Phoenix, authorities said. It's at least the 12th discovery of such a stash-house for border crossers in the Phoenix area within the last month.</p>