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Bob Ortega

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Senior Reporter and Writer, CNN Investigations, CNN
None, Associated Press - Phoenix Bureau

Phoenix

Crime and Justice, U.S. Regional

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Covers: homeland security, the border, cbp/border patrol, cervical cancer prevention, border communities, immigrant issues, medical ethics, drug trafficking

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Special Report: Southwest Border Security

The U.S. spent more than $106 billion over five years securing and militarizing its border with Mexico. That …

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Border Technology Remains Flawed

TUCSON - A long, sharp, high-pitched beep sounds every 30 or 40 seconds at the Border Patrol’s windowless sec…

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False-negative results found in HPV testing

More than 12,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with cervical cancer this year. Hundreds more m…

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Ethics of Two Cancer Studies Questioned

For more than 12 years, as part of two massive U.S-funded studies in India, researchers tracked a large group…

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Border fence putting Arizona pronghorns in peril

The land where the antelope play, where Arizona meets Mexico, has been divided in recent years by taller and …

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Pipeline of children: A border crisis

The pipeline bringing a flood of Central American migrants to the United States, including thousands of unacc…

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Deadly border agent incidents cloaked in silence

A ghost is haunting Nogales. His face stares out from shop windows. It is plastered on handbills and painted …

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