Chris Simcox (left) and another Civil Homeland Defense volunteer wait for the Border Patrol to arrive after finding a group of 23 illegal immigrants in the desert in Cochise County, Ariz. In the mid-1990s, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol focused on tightening control of urban areas along the 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico. The assumption was that crossing through more-rural desert areas was so risky that few would try it. But that assumption was wrong. Migrants are still coming at the rate of hundreds of thousands a year.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
