Border peril prompts Amado school meeting

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The U.S. Border Patrol will host a meeting tonight at an Amado elementary school that was forced into lockdowns on two occasions recently due to dangerous border-related activity nearby. In late April and early May, Sopori Elementary was put on lockdown twice.

In the morning of May 7, a man with blood coming from his head was found by Border Patrol agents lying in the road at the entrance to the school. The man, who was flown to University Medical Center with with life-threatening injuries, had been thrown from or jumped out of a pickup truck carrying marijuana that agents had tried to pull over.

On April 28, the school went on lockdown after agents tracked footprints of drug smugglers to a nearby house. Agents contacted the school principal and decided to put students on lockdown in case the drug runners had weapons.

Agents found nine people inside the house and 200 pounds of marijuana...

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