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A Puebla mother hides the face of her pre-school-aged daughter as they wait for a smuggler to sneak them into Nogales, AZ, USA on May 23, 2006. The numbers of children apprehended by Border Patrol agents is staggering. Between Oct. 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006, agents apprehended 59,397 Mexican children aged 17 and under and 9,738 children of other nationalities. Photo by Fernando Salazar/Wichita Eagle/KRT/ABACAPRESS.COM