"Immigration enforcement and drug smuggling continue to be top
priorities for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Border
Patrol's budget has swelled accordingly, increasing from just $262,647
in 1990 to over $3.5 million dollars in the 2012 fiscal year," reports
photojournalist Erin Siegal of ABC/Univision, in Mexico.
"They've added more agents, more technology, and higher fences.
But they've also got horses. "Coyotes" (human-smugglers) and
narcotraffickers have moved further into mountain and desert terrain, in
response to law enforcement's more aggressive patrolling of urban
areas. And in remote areas, horses help.
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