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Mson population
ises by nine
AMARILLO (AP) — Texas’ his-
ric bison herd has nine new
tembers.
“We thought we had eight,
ut we had one fool us and got
Hate calf,’’ said Danny
weptson, Texas Parks and
Hldlife Department district
manager. “It’s hard to tell when
Hre pregnant.’’
^■e bison roam Caprock
ancons State Park near
uitaque.
He herd was started in the
iteil870s when pioneer cattle-
lar Charles Goodnight, sens-
ig the demise of the great
outhern bison herd, roped two
uff, do calves.
"Goodnight had the foresight
H preserve the herd,’’
we son said. “He also saw
conomic possibilities.”
Troubled waters in the Valley
McALLEN (AP)
Weekend storms flooded the
southern outskirts of La Joya
with up to 30 inches of water
after the walls of a canal burst
early Sunday. The promise of
more rain Wednesday has resi
dents and officials worried.
The water in the canal came
from the overflowing La Joya
Lake. The canal is normally
used by the irrigation district to
siphon river How from the Rio
Grande. Officials widened an
existing ditch to pull the water
toward the Rio Grande
Monday.
“Were trying to build our
own levee out here, because the
water is one foot from our
house” said Elda Hernandez,
who piled logs, mounds of dirt
and sandbags into a wall around
her home, in a story in The
(McAllen) Monitor. “This is the
first house it’s going to hit.”
By Monday afternoon, the
floods had been somewhat
contained.
“We’re still working at it,”
said La Joya Mayor Billy Leo.
“There is just a lot of water that
We're just worried
that it may rain again.
— Billy Leo
La Joya Mayor
has to flow from our drains.
We’re just worried that it may
rain again.”
Officials had first worried
that the water pressure from
the canal would cause a levee
to give and add another 6 feet
of flooding.
"The part that we were
afraid of is OK. The water com
ing from the north has already
stopped," Leo said. “The exist
ing water from the lake we are
trying to get rid of. The lake
itself is under control and it’s
going down.”
Officials first pumped water
from the canal to divert it away
from residents. Obregon said
irrigation officials also widened
the break in the canal Sunday
evening to alleviate pressure at
the lake and avoid disaster.
When asked about another
rain storm this week, Leo was
pessimistic.
“I don’t know we can handle
that. If it’s an excessive rain, we
might have some problems. It’s
just a lot of water.”
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T11 LANA. Mexico (AP) —
immigration officials said
^■day they would place 20
^■gency-aid stations along
retches of a broiling-hot
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iglants have died trying to
oss into the United States,
^pie announcement came
/o days before President
tcesnte Fox meets with U.S.
'esident George W. Bush to
scuss his proposal for an
teg rated approach to migra-
Jnlthat would involve tempo-
rylwork visas for Mexicans,
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igrants and U.S. aid for
tpoverished Mexican corn-
unities that are home to
rge numbers of migrants.
Officials said they will
install 20 emergency stations
in La Rumorosa and Andrade,
two mountainous desert areas
of the state that have been
declared emergency zones
because of a high number of
migrant deaths.
Migrants trying to cross the
border in this region must
walk for four days in tempera
tures reaching 50 degrees
Celsius or 122 Fahrenheit.
Most of the deaths are the
result of dehydration or sun
stroke. Many migrants also
get lost, leaving them vulnera
ble to the dangerous condi
tions for longer amounts of
time.
The stations will be
equipped with blinking light
towers visible from long dis
tances, radios to make calls
for help, and information for
locating water, food, shade,
and human assistance.
Civil Protection director
Alfredo Escobedo indicated
that the units would offer
maps to help migrants orient
themselves and tell rescue
authorities where they are.
The action is a combined
effort of the state of Baja
California, federal police,
civil protection forces and the
border rescue force known as
Grupo Beta.
Grupo Beta began as a bor
der police force to protect
migrants from abuses on their
illegal journeys. But Fox con
verted the force into a rescue
squad after numerous accusa
tions emerged ranging from
extortion to migrant traffick
ing to embezzlement.
On Wednesday, Fox will
begin a two-day visit with
Bush. Migration will be one of
the top items on the binational
agenda.
Bush has been consulting
with Mexican officials on a
proposal to grant legal resi
dency to undocumented
Mexicans. He has promised
illegal migrants some sort of
worker program to legalize
their labor in the United
States, but has ruled out a
blanket amnesty.
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