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Hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers are waiting for processing in a remote stretch of desert along the border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, marking the latest in a months-long increase of arrivals in the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. A few miles from the Lukeville Port of Entry on Tuesday morning, a sea of thin silver blankets and discarded clothing stuck to the

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat.

Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center. The…

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat.

Smugglers are suddenly steering migrants through some of the most desolate and dangerous areas of the Arizona borderlands, forcing them to walk for miles in scorching heat

Smugglers in Mexico are pushing migrants to enter the United States through the remote Arizona desert. This poses a problem for border control agents in the sweltering Arizona heat.

The migrants were among hundreds who have been trudging this summer in the scorching sun and through open storm gates in the border wall to U.S. soil.

Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of

In just a month, the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector in July became the busiest along the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time since 2008.

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