Border family's strange encounters with illegal crossers
The Garners' world includes security drills, self-defense lessons, and a gun on the hip for Mom.
By Daniel B. Wood\ Staff Writer of the Christian Science Monitor
NACO, ARIZ.- The Garner family on Purdy Lane doesn't know exactly how many Chickens, Roosters, Guinea hens, or Geese they own on their 5-acre farm in this dusty town on the U.S.-Mexico border.
But they know the number is smaller than the number if illegal immigrants who can be seen daily in groups of three, 10, 40, 60, and more on their property. They are often huddled in centepede form (hands on the hips of the person in front), kneeling under windows, crouched behind trees, and sleeping in their egg house....