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US border encounters of migrant families rise despite heat Officials say they saw 5% more encounters with migrants trying to cross the border in June compared with May, an increase they attributed to repeated attempts. Author: ANITA SNOW Associated Press Published: 6:20 AM CDT July 17, 2021 Updated: 6:20 AM CDT July 17, 2021 PHOENIX — U.S. officials say the number of migrant families they encountered at the border in June increased by 25% from the previous month even as summer temperatures rise in the deserts and mountain terrain of the south...

  PHOENIX -- U.S. officials say the number of migrant families they encountered at the border in June increased by 25 per cent from the previous month even as summer temperatures rise in the deserts and mountain terrain of the southwestern borderlands. According to new numbers released Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tallied 55,805 members of families with children in June, compared with 44,746 in May. While a large increase, the figure is far below the high of 88,587 in May 2019. Overall, officials say they saw 5 per cent more encounters with migrants trying to cross the bord...

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/Cron...

More migrant deaths recorded amid record heat along Arizona border Matt York/AP FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2020, file photo, crews work along a pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Migrants trekking across the Arizona borderlands have died at higher rates in the two decades since stepped up enforcement began funneling them into remote, hostile desert and mountain regions, a sweeping new analysis concluded Monday, April 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt York, file) and last updated 2021-07-12 18:09:49-04 PHOENIX — The bodies of an unusually ...

Not all 43 of those people died in June, but at least 16 had been dead for just a day and another 13 for less than a week when they were found, said Mike Kreyche, a mapping coordinator for Humane Borders. The group’s figures include all bodies recovered of people believed to have been migrants and are higher than the number of deaths reported by the Border Patrol, which only counts those it handles in the course of its work. Kreyche noted that the 127 sets of remains found during the first half of this year were far higher than the 96 bodies recovered during the same period last year. This ...