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The majority of the 148 deaths — more than 100 — occurred between May and September, when El Paso experienced one of its hottest summers on record.

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Over the past 20 years, thousands of migrants have died in the Arizona desert. Rising temperatures are only expected to exacerbate the situation.

View Comments COLORADO RIVER, Ariz. — In the scorching heat, against the backdrop of a vehicle barrier separating the United States from Mexico, officials from federal agencies in both countries came together to explain the dangers of crossing their shared border. Representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Mexican Consulate in Yuma and Mexico’s C5 surveillance force spoke at an annual event on Thursday afternoon near Yuma with the goal of dissuading unauthorized crossing...

You put yourself in incredible peril: Extreme heat can be deadly for border crossers, officials warn Meena Venkataramanan and Andrew Favakeh, Arizona Republic © Meena Venkataramanan / The Republic A dummy weighing 220 pounds is carried for several hundred yards to reenact what Border Patrol agents do when encountering a migrant who is ill. The simulation was part of an event on July 8, 2021, at the Arizona-Mexico border near Yuma emphasizing the danger of border crossing with...

Adults are crossing the border at the highest levels in at least a decade, many through remote desert terrain. Rescue operations are on pace to double this year.

Occasionally, the hikers came across a piece of clothing, a water bottle, a backpack, or a .50 caliber bullet casing leftover from bombing and live-fire exercises at the nearby Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. But signs of human life are largely absent in this harsh and unforgiving landscape. The southern Arizona sun, 15 miles from the Mexico border, was brutally hot, even in the early hours of a March morning. The intimidating Growler Mountains loomed over the flat and exposed desert expans...