Shadow Wolves Snubbed by Border Patrol
Since 1972, the Shadow Wolves, a specially trained unit of American Indian federal agents who patrol 76 miles of the Arizona border in the Tohono O'odham nation, have been celebrated for their ability to track and stop drug smugglers. In 2003 they were shifted from the now defunct U.S. Customs Service to the Border Patrol. And now, the Shadow Wolves say, they are confined to seven-mile patrol areas and haven't been able to do the in-depth investigations that made them so successful at catching smugglers. Their frustration has caught the attention of Congress. JENNIFER TALHELM for the Associated Press.