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Office, one of the sheriffs out in arizona, paul balboa and his deputies, are taking their night to the desert playing a dangerous cat and mouse game with mexican dug smugglers and other illegal aliens. william la jeunesse joined them, and he joins now from phoenix. all right. so what, exactly, where are you doing? >> reporter: well, many see this as arizona's overreacting. what they forget is smuggling people and drug is the a dangerous, lucrative and often deadly business. take a look at this map, and what it shows you is how the cartels have really adapted to increased border enforcement cr...

Federal law opened to hiker, though the government warns the public to stay out. >> our normal patrol deputy is outmanned and outgunned in this area. they're coming from mexico with ak-47s, with ar-15 style rifles. >> reporter: the amazing thing here is we are 70 miles from the mexican border, and yet you can see this is a well-known lay-up point and a human and drug smuggling corridor. millions of dollars of cargo come through this valley. in fact, deputies say they have lookouts at the high points, and they've probably been watching us since the time we arrived. from here illegals hike a sho...

Chase. >> in the backseat was a bundle of marijuana, and on the floor board in the backseat there was two fully-loaded ak47s. >> reporter: the sheriff who's raising money privately to outfit his deputies with more powerful weapons says the administration needs to help arizona, not sue it. >> i'd like to invite president obama to come here and see this drug and human smuggling corridor to see for himself 80 miles, 70 miles, 90 miles deep into our state, into america what's going on. >> reporter: to underscore that point, i just got an e-mail from the sheriff last night at 10:30 p.m. they got a ...

You can see this is a well-known lay up point and a human and drug smuggling corridor. millions of dollars of cargo come through this valley. deputies say they have look outs at the high points and they've been probably watching us since the time we arrived. from here illegals hike a short distance to interstate 8 to get picked up. >> that is to avoid detection and avoid tracking -frpbltsz they wear pieces of carpet on their feet to disguise their footprints, some drinking bundles of marijuana to the freeway. >> that is essentially our backpack there that you're caring with a load of dope. >> ...

This is not afghanistan. but arizona. federal land open to hikers but the government warns the public to stay out. >> our normal patrol deputy is outmanned and outgunned and they come from mexico with ak-47's, and special rifles. >> we are 70 miles from the mexican border and you can see this is a well-known layup point and human and drug smuggling corridor and millions of dollars of cargo come through here and deputies have lookouts at the high points and they have been watching us since we arrived. from here, illegals hike a short distance to interstate 8 to be picked up and wear carpet on t...