Border Patrol agents discovered the bodies of two suspected illegal border crossers Wednesday, the ninth and 10th found in the past 11 days.

At 9:45 a.m. east of Douglas, a Border Patrol agent tracking a group of illegal entrants discovered a decomposed body, said Jose A. Gonzalez Jr., a Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokes-man. The body was found about six miles east of Douglas on Geronimo Trail, a dirt road that runs east-west parallel to the international line.

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A local immigrant-rights organization on Thursday kicked off a three-month statewide campaign to teach people about their rights and how to document abuses.

On Monday, more than 100 volunteers from the Border Action Network will begin training immigrants about their constitutional and human rights, and teaching them how to document and report abuses, said Jennifer Allen, Border Action Network executive director.

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It's as if all the contradictions of the U.S. War on Terror, immigration reform, U.S.-Mexico relations, free trade, and sagging economies on both sides of the border have burst at the seams, and at the same time. As the record hot summer of 2007 crawls to a close, the political barometer on the U.S.-Mexico border is tipping red. Barely a day goes by without hunger strikes, human chains, border crossing demonstrations, marches, and calls for economic boycotts.

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An illegal entrant who became ill was evacuated by helicopter Tuesday, but died en route to the hospital.

The agency received a call at 6:30 p.m. from someone who reported that three illegal entrants needed help at milepost 151 on Arizona 86, about a mile east of Three Points, said Sean King, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

Two illegal border crossers — a boy and a girl — told Border Patrol agents who answered the call that they had left their traveling companion behind in the brush, he said.

Agents found the woman and called Emergency Medical Services and Borstar, the Border Patrol's search, trauma and rescue unit, and requested a helicopter. The woman was flown to St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, King said.

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Presidential candidate John McCain has made a stunning revelation. He told an audience at the Aspen Institute in Colorado he has received death threats stemming from his immigration proposals.

"I have never seen an issue that has inflamed the passions of the American people the way the issue of immigration reform has," the Republican senator from Arizona said. Not even the war in Iraq has done that, he commented. "We have never received death threats before like I received."

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