i was trying to get an experienced person down to cover it. they said why don t you go. i said okay. i went down there. as i have often said to people, in the ten years i have been writing about this i have never really found the words to describe what it was like to go down in the year 2000 and to see a country that looked like it was at war right here in the united states. of little border town in the southeastern corner of arizona. i will read a fragment from my book. .. ordinary american life continued all around them. agents of my own government were chasing down farm workers and bus blaze and cleaning ladies with helicopters and infrared cameras and halting of the poorest of the poor off to jail we hadn t seen this kind of, i guess we will call it militarization on the border, before then. arizona in the last 10 years has become a killing field. we have now found the bodies of those to 2000 migrants. this is just in southern arizona since the border enforcement was step