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and is republished here by permission. Last year geographer Sam Chambers published an unusual map of the Sonoran Desert. He wasn’t interested in marking roads, mountains and cities. Instead, the University of Arizona researcher wanted to show the distance a young male can walk in various regions of the desert before the high temperature and physical exertion put him at risk of dying from heat exposure or hyperthermia. On the resulting map, red and purple correspond with cooler, mountainous terrain. Yellow and white, which dominate the image, indicate a remote, hot valley. It’s here wh...

The Ghoulish, Bipartisan Tradition of Death at the Southern Border Biden has an opportunity to break the cycle of deadly border militarization embraced by his predecessors of both parties. Will he take it? HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images It was Selina Sanchez-Cristobal’s day off, but she picked up the phone anyway. It was 2019, and she was the only employee running a 24-hour hotline for migrants who became lost crossing from Mexico to Texas; the calls rarely stopped. On the line was Danny, a Honduran man in his mid-twenties who had spotted the hotline number on a water station near Falfurrias...

TUCSON, Ariz. . (AP) — For migrants in remote areas of southern Arizona, carrying a...

Humane Borders cites deadliest year on record for migrants crossing through Arizona border Unmute TUCSON (KVOA) -- A local non-profit that tracks migrant deaths along our southern borders says last year was the deadliest year on record for those trekking through the desert to come to the United States. According to officials at Humane Borders, last year, they recorded 227 deaths from migrants crossing into the U.S. through the Arizona border. "The reality is that last year was the deadliest year that we have on record," Tony Banegas said. Banegas is the Chief Execu...

HeadlineFeb 04, 2021 A damning new report by the groups No More Deaths and Coalición de Derechos Humanos finds that Border Patrol agents systematically ignore and dismiss reports of missing migrants and obstruct efforts by families and humanitarian groups to assist or find migrants in the harsh Arizona desert. This is Parker Deighan, who works with No More Deaths and is one of the authors of the report. Parker Deighan: “The agency’s systematic neglect towards emergency reports of undocumented people in distress constitutes a state crime of historic proportions. Therefore, we don’t ad...