So Paco gets back on the horn and arranges to make the deal at the rickety chain-link border fence along Coyote Canyon. No-man's-land. You go into Coyote Canyon at night, you’d better bring a gun, and even that might not be enough, because a lot of God’s children got guns in Coyote Canyon, a big scar in the rolling hills of barren dirt that flank the ocean along the border. The Canyon runs from the north edge of TJ for about two miles into the United States, and it is bandit country. Late in the afternoon, thousands of would-be immigrants start forming up on either side of the canyon on a
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