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Guitlerrez was beaten and detained for 12 hours before he was dumped beside a road. At this point. the report assumes the character of a catalog of turmoil: So far this year. Border Patrol officers at San Diego have found near the border the bodies of eight immigrants robbed and murdered on their way north. In nearby Chula Vista. according to Police Chief William Winters. "were losing over 100 stolen cars a month" to Illegal aliens. In Brownsville. Texas. the Police Department says twothirds of the crimes committed in the city are directly attributable to Illegal aliens. At the conclusion of this grim account. the Times provides its own description of the notorious "soccer field": Every evening Border Patrol officers. looking down at a plain they call the "soccer field" Just on the United States side of the border from Tijuana. watch while as many as 5.000 Mexicans gather. waiting for dusk. For several miles on either side of this field. hundreds of other Mexicans sit on rocks or lean against the northern side of the border fence. Observing them a few hundred yards inside the United States. lone Border Patrol officers sit in fourwheeldrive vehicles roughly every halfmile. As darkness falls. the Mexicans are Joined by hundreds of others and begin pouring north in streams. Some walk behind guides in straight. tight lines as many as 100 people long. others in less organized groups. hundreds and hundreds of Mexicans. including entire families with women and children.