In addition, Bush will work quickly to find ways to comply with a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement that allows Mexican trucks full access to U.S. roadways , said David DeCarme, chief of the Department of Transportation's surface, maritime and facilitation division. He said the numbers of inspectors on the border have increased since 1994 and there are plans to augment that work force. What was once a proud institution of learning has become a social workers' haven for left liberal political activism. Blanca Vergara lives with her husband and four children in a one-room shack with no running water. When her family needs to use the bathroom, they run across an acre of grass to a single outdoor latrine shared by a dozen people from three homes.
Power comes through an extension cord from a nearby trailer.
For us, this is a better life than we had in our country, a better life for our kids. My children speak another language. Theories to explain the drop vary - from the unusually cold, wet weather this winter to the fact that many Mexicans are feeling a renewed sense of hope about their homeland with the rise of new President Vicente Fox. But interviews and anecdotes from both sides of the border in Douglas suggest that the increasing presence of Border Patrol and their green and white trucks may be playing a major prohibitive role. While experts and immigration officials caution that it's too soon to say the data represent a turning point in America's crusade to control its borders, the decline is significant.