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  • Editorial: Desperation at heart of illegal immigration

    The Victoria Texas Advocate

    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...