January 21, 2010 - Ajo, AZ

Ajo, a small town situated in southern Arizona, 30 miles from the mexican border, where we visited Paul`s relatives. A fairly large copper mine once thrived in this town between the early 1900`s to 1985. We were very surprised to see a large fleet of border patrol  SUV vehicles, helicopters, ATV`s as well as checkstops. Scouring the vast desert for illegal alliens and drug smuggling, which is a very common occurrence in this area. The agent at a checkstop had told us they had just caught 40 illegal alliens in the desert and 2 Jordainian`s, he had also said that a large amount of drugs are smuggled in this region.