La Joya, TX August 25, 2007: A Border Patrol boat patrol surveys the Rio Grande River between Mission and Rio Grande City in far south Texas where illegal immigrants and drug smugglers regularly cross from Mexico into the United States. ©Bob Daemmrich

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