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The Texas county lines that separate Goliad and Bee counties is 869 miles north of Mexico City and 1,572 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Last month, however, a lonely spot between Goliad and Beeville on U.S. Highway 59 became ground zero for the issue of immigration reform between the United States and Mexico. A pickup truck carrying 23 suspected illegal immigrants blew a tire, careened off the road, and slammed into a tree. Fifteen passengers died in what one observer called the "the worst single motor vehicle accident...