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Via AZCentral
A scruffy dirt road runs along the U.S. border fence here, up and down several hilly, rugged blocks in the gritty, cartel-dominated Buenos Aires neighborhood. Anyone standing on higher ground here can watch the white-and-green Border Patrol vehicles on the U.S. side and see where the agents are at any moment.
This is where the rocks come from.
A short stretch across the fence from this road, just a few hundred yards long, is perhaps the one spot along the entire U.S.-Mexico border where Border Patrol agents are most likely to be attacked with rocks and to respond with force.
Roughly one in every six incidents along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border in which agents used force against rock throwers in recent years occurred here, across the fence from three adjacent streets leading to the fence in Nogales, Ariz., an investigation by The Arizona Republic has found.
Agents know that what they call “rockings” are a constant threat on the U.S. side along Short Street, East Street and Escalada Drive, all of which end at the border fence near the top of a large hill, just east of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry.
Even though Border Patrol reports show that long-range less-lethal weapons, such as one that fires irritant “pepper balls,” are highly effective at dispersing rock throwers, Customs and Border Protection doesn’t require agents assigned to urban areas such as this one to carry such weapons.
HT 4MNR