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Thousands of illegal migrants pass through the Tohono O'odham tribal lands in their quest to arrive in the United States. Some die in the harsh Sonoran Desert. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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A simple cross marks where a Mexican migrant died in the Arizonan tribal lands of the Tohono O'odham Indians. Their reservation has become a key transit zone for Mexican marijuana and narcotics smugglers. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Part of the skeleton of a steer lies in the parched desert near Al-Jek, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Indian reservation. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Veterans and others raise the U.S. flag at a Memorial Day service in Sells, Arizonia, seat of the Tahono O'odham Indian tribe. The reservation has become a favorite corridor of drug smugglers. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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Juan U. Salcido, a member of the Tohono O'odham Indian tribe, holds up his tribal ID at his home in Sonoyta, Mexico, over the border from the tribe's Arizona reservation. (Tim Johnson/MCT)
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