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Cowboys Call for Immigration Compromise
In a debate often argued in extremes _ even here, in the land of militias and Minutemen _ there's a middle ground to be found.
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  Joaquin Morales, 12, plants a Mexican flag in the ground before a Cinco de Mayo immigrants' rights rally at Chicano Park in San Diego on Friday, May 5, 2006. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) (Denis Poroy - AP) The Immigration Debate
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A few statistics about Cochise County, Ariz.
Residents: 117,755. Nonresidents caught crossing illegally since October: 52,885. Border Patrol agents who do the catching: 750.
Cowboy poets: At least one.
Strom is strolling from his horse corrals to his bunkhouse for some iced tea when suddenly he stops and launches into one of his favorite ditties in perfect baritone pitch. He calls it, "We're Doing Business Just the Same," a lament on the travails of a border rancher and certain events that occurred over a two-week period two years ago in June.
"Border Patrol came through,
"broke my gate down, too,
"as they cut my water lines.
"Said they'd fix it soon,
"by tomorrow noon.
"These delays take too much time. ...