South Texas heat deadly for illegal immigrants: officials

07/19/11 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The U.S. Border Patrol is deploying search and rescue units in the south Texas brush country in response to an "alarming" spike in illegal immigrants dying due to triple digit temperatures, officials told Reuters on Tuesday.

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Border Agents Seize $7.6M In Narcotics

07/19/11 U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector confiscate more than 7,000 pounds of marijuana and 60 pounds of cocaine in multiple seizures over the past few days, a press release states.

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Fort Davis wildfire exposed divisions as it destroyed property

07/17/11 share: digg facebook twitter Three months after the Rock House Fire charred a huge swath of West Texas land stretching north from Marfa, divisive issues remain unresolved.

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