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AJO – It was a simple message scrawled into a basalt rock lying near-empty cans of beans and jugs of water that volunteers had left deep in the Sonoran Desert for undocumented immigrants passing through: “Gracias.” But to Mikal Jakubal, who, as a volunteer with the Ajo Samaritans, had been making weekly trips into the backcountry to stock water drop locations, the note was affirmation that the group’s efforts were appreciated. “For the most part, we will never hear from the people who use this,” Jakubal said. “We don’t know what it was like getting to t...

Advertisement: “You can’t even describe what we are doing as a Band-Aid on a gushing wound,” Jakubal said. He said a long history of U.S. policies in Latin America has contributed to the reasons migrants are risking their lives to trek for days through harsh terrain in hopes of finding better lives in the U.S. In other words, Jakubal said, “what’s going on at the border now is like a symptom on top of a symptom on top of a symptom of the deeper problem.” A shift in policy Doug Ruopp, a veteran volunteer with the migrant ...

AP Photo/Gregory Bull Biden’s border crisis will get a troubling number of people killed while his team continues to make a mess of the situation at the southern border. A report earlier this week detailing how a Texas farmer found several migrant children crying on the border is only a preview of what we can expect as this calamity continues. RedState’s Brandon Morse reported on Tuesday on a story in which a farmer discovered migrant children who had been left to fend for themselves by the adults who were with them. “According to Fox News, the farmer found ‘baby girls’ alone and cr...

The death rate among Mexican migrants in the United States has risen to a new level amid the coronavirus pandemic. But for undocumented migrants, the dilemma does not end on their death because their immigration status is still haunting them even after their last breath, according to The Washington Post. Migrants from Mexico are repatriated to their home country for them to be buried. However, the expenses for the process are another challenge their family will have to face, on top of the difficulty they are facing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. READ NEXT:  Mexican Migrants' Death in the U.S.

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 expanse from the east. Shade could be found under the sparse trees that lined a sprawling wash that snaked...