Border Update

YUMA, Ariz.—The assaults here can pile up quickly. U.S. Border Patrol agent Michael Norton, who patrols the area on bicycle, says he was almost drowned recently when he chased two migrant smugglers into a canal where they repeatedly forced him underwater. And last month, another agent was brutally struck in the face by a convicted murderer who had been deported several months before. Still, Norton says he's seen worse. "It's a different border than it was in 2005," he says, padlocking a van with two fresh catches inside. "Back then so many people were crossing here, it was like the Macy's Day parade every single night."


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