US/Mexico Border

Associated Press © 2007
A United States Border Patrol vehicle cruises between the long primary and secondary fence line in San Diego, California, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. The area has been the site of alleged increased violence against the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico.