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Smugglers steering migrants into remote desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges

Anita Snow, Associated Press//September 1, 2023//[read_meter]

migrants, desert, Border Patrol, extreme heat

A family of five claiming to be from Guatemala and a man stating he was from Peru, in a pink shirt, walk through the desert after crossing the border wall in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. A settlement filed Oct. 16 in a long-running lawsuit over the Trump administration's separation of parents and their children at the border bars the government from similar separations for eight years while also providing benefits like the ability for their parents to come to the United States and work, according to the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Smugglers steering migrants into remote desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges

Anita Snow, Associated Press//September 1, 2023//[read_meter]

ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a...

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