Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, organized by Tucson's Border Action Network. In August 2004, BAN hosted a community forum where anger simply erupted. People had been afraid to speak out, ... They fear repercussions they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.
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They just keep throwing money at the border with all these new novelty things that they try. It's just a waste of taxpayers' money.
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The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody in the U.S. illegally who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.
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Parents didn't like the idea of their children possibly having to move twice.
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To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.
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It's an incredibly costly endeavor, and then on top of that, walls don't work. All the fencing has done for the last 10 years is to push people into crossing the border in more and more difficult and dangerous terrain.
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