The Krentz Bonfire (an Arizona border story) [View All]

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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-krentz-bonfire/Content?oid=1945848


A little more than a month has passed since the death of Cochise County
rancher Rob Krentz, and the emotion generated by his murder,
the pure shock of it, has ignited a bonfire that still burns across
Arizona's borderlands—and all the way to Washington, D.C.

Now everyone is demanding troops. Now, with Gov. Jan Brewer's signature
on a tough new illegal-immigration law, the nation is embroiled in a loud
debate about racial profiling. Now everyone has a multi-point plan for
bringing some control to a border so porous that anyone who wants to get
into the country can eventually do so, as Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever
last week told the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Will anything change now?

When the bonfire cools, will we be able to look back and say, as the
heartbroken Krentz family hopes, that Rob's death wasn't in vain?

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Some perspective from Baja Arizona