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17 dead bodies, rape trees and migrants crawling on his land: Arizona rancher armed with a Glock describes life on the frontlines of the border crisis as Republicans push bill to allow landowners to shoot trespassers

John Ladd’s phone is an archive of life on a ranch beside the Arizona border with Mexico.

He scrolls past photographs of handsome Red Angus and cross-bred Hereford-Brahman cattle, picture after picture of Donald Trump’s 30ft border wall that spans about six-and-a-half miles of his land. Then he stops at an image of a tree.

‘That’s a rape tree,’ he said, pointing out the women’s clothes thrown into the thorny branches.

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