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Personal Safety of Federal Land-Management Field Employees Working Along the Mexican Border

Nature of the Problem

The health and safety concerns of employees stem from two types of illegal activities on or near the border between Brownsville, TX, and San Diego, CA: drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Each of these illegal activities poses specific safety and health threats to Federal land-management field employees working on or near the border.

As a way to better understand the safety and health issues that field employees face, we attempted to isolate specific problems related either to drug activities or illegal immigration. Many of the problems stem from both activities. Still other problems identified by employees relate to safety and health concerns caused or exacerbated by agency or law enforcement responses to drug smuggling or illegal immigration. In each of these areas, we report on the specific stories told to us during our interviews: stories that provide a more complete picture of the daily challenges faced by field personnel.

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