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Border Patrol Heroes Face Deadly Frontiers on Two Borders
A series profiles border immigration officers across the U S Mexican and Canadian lines. Inspectors Clark de la Pena McKee Scotten Wood Roberts fall to ambushes and gunfire while pursuing alien smugglers, with brave acts and tragic losses shaping the service.
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Immigration Service
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
America
Uncle Sam
United States
Jesse James
Texas Plains
el Paso
Brownsville
Tex
Detroit
Mich
Washington
Frank H. Clark
Rio Grande
Clark
August D. de la Pena
Bureau of Immigration
de la Pena
Rio Grande City
Border Patrol
Willam W. McKee
Tucson
McKee
Miles J. Scannell
Texas
Presidio
Ivan E. Scotten
San Elizario
Scotten
Los Pompos
Los Pompos Ford
Franklin P. Wood
Wyandotte, Mich
Detroit River
Officer Wood