Phoenix, Arizona: America's kidnapping capital is brutal

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Even a proposal by Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) and Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) that was hailed as a bipartisan approach to comprehensive immigration reform hasn't gone anywhere. It proposed some solutions that include creating a process for admitting temporary workers, plus what the senators called a "tough but fair path to legalization for those already here."

Until changes are made at a federal level — not with a patchwork of rules that merely shift illegal immigrants from state to state — the opportunities that the United States offers immigrants will be too strong a force for border agents to overcome, U.S. border policy critics such as Phoenix immigration attorney Jared Leung believe.

Phoenix Police Department/Home Invasion Kidnapping Enforcement

A Phoenix drop house where coyotes held more than two dozen illegal immigrants hostage.

Phoenix Police Department/Home Invasion Kidnapping Enforcement

This "torture closet" was used to brutally abuse a Phoenix kidnapping victim whose family could not pay his ransom.

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"People are going to search for a way to feed their families, for work to support their families," he says. "A poor father from Guatemala will find a way to support his family. If he has to choose between breaking the law and putting food on the table, he's going to put food on the table. Any father would choose to put food on the table."