. Yet, they are still hungry and need a place to rest, which is why they take advantage of the rancher’s cattle, barns, or water once they arrive in Arizona. One official blames the problem on Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) policy and federal attempts to resolve the issue which do not focus on detection of stolen or counterfeit documentation “The problem is the Border Patrol believes its own press releases. They don’t think the problem can be solved, either. I don’t think we need more Border Patrol agents. I think we need to do things differently” (Slivka, 2000, 1). Violence also increases the demand for stolen or forged documents because it is a less risky way of crossing the border into the U.S.
In 1995, 1.3 million aliens were detained at the Mexican border trying to enter the U.S. illegally (Dillon, 1997, 2). Of this number, only a handful were detained because of suspected stolen or fraudulent documentation and this number does not reveal the nu
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