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.... nobody really knows how many illegal crossers enter the United States without being caught. A hundred miles west of El Paso on the border in New Mexico, ranchers say the tidal wave of migrants has left the Border Patrol unable to cover this remote stretch of desert where they live. "I'm Russell Johnson. I'm the fourth generation to be ranching out here with my family, and this is the barrier that we've got in one stretch of area that my family farms," one of the ranchers told CBN News. "And as you can see it serves no purpose to...

HOUSTON, August 17, 2006 – The amateur video footage is shaky but there is no mistaking the limp bodies lying alongside a Nuevo Laredo gutter and the peppering sound of rapid gunfire in the back-ground. The video documenting a recent gunfight between Mexican law enforcement and drug cartels was shown at the start of a subcommittee hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday. The hearing was intended to investigate criminal activity and violence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Like the video, the hearing included stories of gruesome violence committed along the border and by illegal immigrants. At...