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Unit 10 Dying to get inWhen it comes to illegal immigration, the leaders of both parties havent found much to agree on – except for one thing. Just about everyone wants to spend billions of dollars to tighten the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexican border. There is nothing new about this. Since 1993, the U.S. government has tripled the budget for border control, spending a small fortune on fences, high-tech surveillance equipment – not to mention thousands of additional border patrol agents. All of this was supposed to make it harder for illegal immigrants to cross over in cities and towns along the border. And it did.But, as correspondent Ed Bradley reported last December, some of the same people who designed that strategy now say its been a huge waste of taxpayers money and that it has done nothing to stop migrants from coming to the U.S. illegally. What it has done, they say, is to force those migrants to cross remote and treacherous stretches of desert, where many are dying. The death toll is so high that the Border Patrol now has a special unit whose only job to help migrants in trouble. During the filming of our 60 Minutes story, Officer Garrett Neubauer received a distress call about 20 miles north of the border in southern Arizona.What we had is a person walked out to one of the roads, flagged down some agents, waved them down and stated that he had left his friend out on the desert, says Neubauer.The migrant theyre looking for is an 18-year-old Mexican named Abran Gonzales, who has been wandering in the desert for seven days. Agents have narrowed the search area and have found one of his shoes.Thats what were looking for, and thats why I wanted to see his shoe. Just to kind of get an idea of what his other shoe looks like. So I know what Im looking for on the ground. It sounds to me like hes kind of out of it. Hes dehydrated. His condition is going downhill, so hes probably not thinking rationally, says Neubauer.Agent Neubauer has good reason to be con