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World Service,29 May 2006,22 mins

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Hundreds of illegal migrants die in the desert trying to cross a border line, where the developing world meets the first world. We go to the Arizona and Mexican border towns to meet Mexican migrants about to embark on a hundred mile trek across the desert to find work in the US.

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