PHOENIX (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen fired on a truck packed with suspected illegal immigrants in southern Arizona early on Friday, killing two people and wounding a third, police said.

The gunmen killed a man and a woman traveling in a pickup truck near Green Valley, some 30 miles south of Tucson, Pima County Sheriff's Department said.

Spokeswoman Dawn Barkman said the dead were believed to be Mexican immigrants traveling with three family groups from the poor southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Barkman said two children were among at least 14 people packed into the extended-cab pickup truck.

Each year U.S. border police catch more than a million undocumented immigrants crossing north from Mexico, many of them through the desert corridor south of Tucson. There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

Last month gunmen shot dead three Guatemalan immigrants and wounded two others in an attack on a back road northwest of Tucson. Investigators in that incident said rival people-trafficking networks were likely responsible.

Police say increased security on the U.S.-Mexico border has made human trafficking a more profitable activity, resulting in increased violence among smugglers.

A smuggling ring that Arizona police say flew thousands of illegal immigrants across the United States from the Phoenix area was busted earlier this week with 16 people indicted, authorities said on Thursday.

Authorities said nearly $2 million in bookings were made by the ring.

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We really should be looking at this border issue a little more closely, and not discussing stupid shit like Anna Nicole's fat bloated body and how she died... Sign of the times.

Obviously the locals are getting sick of this shit...

Should I find myself in a similar position, I would probably have reacted similarly. Especially with the drug and human trafficers handing illegal firearms to these people. America is fast becoming a liberty sieve...

Basically we can hold the leak where we live as best we can, but nationally, I'm not sure how well things will hold up.

Have they pinned this one on the Minutemen yet? They are looking for any excuse to shut them down.

The Minutemen all carry cam-corders now.  So even if someone tries to pin it on them, they have like 4 guys per group armed with a sony handicam.

Smart! Still its only a matter of time before they get into a (provoked) shootout.

Not needed, the media here has pinned them as "KKK" sympathizers.  


Which is funny because I know Americans of Mexican and African descent who are on the Minute Men Project...


The KKK went down there to try to Recruit, and their presence there was NOT welcomed by the Minute Men.  But the fact remains that they showed up and the News made the premature leap to conclusions they always do.


I hate the KKK and Neo-Nazis more than I hate Illegal Aliens.

theres only two things i hate, people who are inconsiderate of other peoples cultures... and the dutch!

Haha, Michael Cane..

Cain!!! get it straight or pay the price!

WOOT! that was my padawan post! hahahahahaha i'm such a nerd

its Caine, but that will be overlooked in light of my recent awesome achievements...

He was responsible for the Caine Mutany?