Scripps Howard News Service: "Those who live with the border every day understand the importance of better enforcement, but they fear the fences and soldiers will force undocumented immigrants, mostly men looking for work to support their parents and families, to find other ways. They might try crossing in other open parts of Arizona's desert border that runs for 379 miles. They might try other means, such as being smuggled in trucks.
"On the outskirts of San Luis Rio Colorado, a city of 15,000 people on the Mexican side of the border, some residents watched earlier this month as the Utah soldiers built a steel fence the length of about three football fields.
"Daniel Beltran, a 30-year-old Mexican truck driver who lives in San Luis Rio Colorado, crosses the border legally for work each week. He said he can't believe the U.S. government is spending millions of dollars on the border when it can use the money for education and health care programs."
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