Hidden in Plain Sight: Surveillance at the Arizona Border
It happens every time Clarice Garcia visits from Paradise Valley, says her brother Warren Garcia.
It’s a long drive to the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tohono O’odham Nation — an area in southern Arizona the size of Connecticut — to a cemetery where some of the Garcias’ relatives are laid to rest. At times it’s desolate and heavily patrolled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Except some of the patrols are invisible.
On one particular drive back, past the Tohono O’odham capital of Sells, a CBP agent on an all-terrain vehicle stopped Clarice’s car. Five patrol vehicles surrounded her, banging their batons on the vehicle.
“Open up! Open up!” they yelled at her.
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