Arizona PBS
July 21, 2021
A Border Patrol agent with a migrant who was caught near Naco in August 2020. Customs and Border Protection recorded almost 1.1 million border “encounters” in the first nine months of fiscal 2021, a potentially record-setting pace, but advocates there may be double-counting in those numbers. (Photo by Jerry Glaser/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
WASHINGTON – The number of migrants stopped at the Southwest border continued to surge last month, to the highest level for June in at least 20 years, but officials caution that those numbers could have been inflated by repeat attempts by the same people.
Customs and Border Protection reported 188,829 “encounters” at the border for June, a 5% increase from May at a time when extreme summer heat typically drives border-crossing attempts down.
Migrant deaths in the desert at record levels as heat wave pounds West
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Migrant deaths in the desert at record levels as heat wave pounds West
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Arizona PBS
July 13, 2021
Three wooden crosses mark the location where the remains of a family were found near Arivaca in April. They were among a record-setting 127 migrant remains recovered in the Arizona desert in the first six months of this year. (File photo by Grace Oldham/Cronkite Borderlands Project)
Remains recovered in the desert are itemized in the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Tucson, where many are marked “unidentified.” Medical examiners cannot always determine a cause of death, but said it is often attributed to exposure. (File photo by Raphael Romero Ruiz/Cronkite Borderlands Project)
Boxes containing unidentified remains are stacked in a hallway in the back of the medical examiner’s office in this March photo. Pima County Chief Medical Examiner Gregory Hess said the office has outgrown its space and is planning for a new building. (File photo by Raphael Romero Ruiz/Cronkite Borderlands Project)