Arivaca, Arizona

Arivaca is an unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. [http://www.azcommerce.com/doclib/commune/arivaca.pdf Arivaca] , Arizona Department of Commerce, 2007-08-10. Accessed 2007-09-07.] It is located 11 miles (18 km) north of the Mexican border and 35 miles (56 km) west of the port of entry at Nogales. Its population has been estimated at 1,000, and the history of the area dates back at least to 1695, although the community was not founded until 1878.

Arivaca is a diverse community with ranchers, prospectors, artists, natural builders, and musicians.Fact|date=June 2007

In May 2007, Arivaca became a flash point for US immigration policy. Part of a travel corridor for a large volume of illegal migrant and drug smuggler traffic, Arivaca is at one end of Project 28, the test of SBInet. SBInet is the effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Boeing Corporation to secure US land borders using technology. It involves convert|98|ft|m|sing=on high towers with radar and cameras that send information to bases in Tucson and Sells, where directions are sent out to specially equipped Border Patrol vehicles about targets for apprehension. Project 28 is the effort to test this strategy on a convert|28|mi|km|sing=on stretch flanking the border on either side of Sasabe, Arizona. There will be two towers on the Tohono O'Odham nation west of the Baboquivari Mountains and 7 towers in the Altar Valley and southwest of Arivaca.Fact|date=June 2007

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External links

* [http://www.arivaca.net Community website]