Late last year the U.S. Border Patrol set up a checkpoint in Trenton, Mich., aimed at arresting undocumented workers. The Border Patrol blocked a road in an industrial area and asked motorists about their citizenship. Such non-border checkpoints have been used near the Mexican border, but their expansion to the Canadian border region is new.

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Zimbabwe: The Gombedza kids are an orphan family of seven that lives alone in the house which belonged to their parents before they died. They are solely dependent for food and help from the neighbors and a young aunt who comes to visit them whenever she can. September 1999 © Karin Retief/ Trace Images/The Image Works

Volume 86
Number 1/2
January/February 2003

in this issue:
"AIDS in a Global Age"

Letters

Editorial Note

A new Witness for our time
by the Executive Committee of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company

As we went to press

Update

Louie's Index

Commentaries

THEME: AIDS in a Global Age

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