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Sheriff Joe Arpaio Protects Arizona from Illegal Alien Invaders & Drug Smugglers with a .50 Cal! – Please Comment, Rate, & Subscribe! In a stretch of barren desert alongside Interstate 8 near Gila Bend that has become a corridor for human and drug smuggling, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and about 100 men staged a crime-suppression operation Thursday. Arpaio brought with him a belt-fed .50-caliber machine gun that can shoot accurately up to a mile as a display of the kind of force he would use if anyone hurts a deputy. “I am trying to send a message to Mexico,” he said. “We will not take anyone hurting our deputies. We will fight back.” The 7-year-old gun has not yet been used, Arpaio said. “It is more for defense.” Nor have any of his deputies yet been harmed in a border scuffle. “We have been very lucky,” he said. The sheriff said criminals smuggling drugs and immigrants across the border are now carrying AK-47s along the swath of desert that is seldom patrolled. The Barry M. Goldwater Range is used for shooting and cannot be patrolled without permission from the United States Air Force. That gives smugglers an easy path for entry, Arpaio said. Often smugglers cut through Vekol Valley east of Gila Bend, then come north to vehicles waiting on Interstate 8, he said. Those usually head to Phoenix on back roads.

Parenting tips: Combating obesity in children

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… of every five children in the United States is overweight or obese? Sadly, this number has tripled since 1963. With good reason, childhood obesity is now the number one health concern among parents in the United States, topping drug abuse and smoking.
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Old Drug Gets A Second Look For TB Fight

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This kind of TB, called XDR-TB because it's extensively drug-resistant, is a lot harder to treat than multiple drug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB, a type that's unfazed by first-line drugs. A recent report from the World Health Organization estimates that …
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Radio woes put agents at risk on the border

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A Customs and Border Protection spokesperson issued a statement saying, "Border Patrol agents' use of technology and communication equipment is an important capability for CBP, combined with other state of the art technologies and age-old methods. Like …
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