Aid groups helping migrants along the border say they’re dealing with an uptick in harassment from vigilante groups and far-right activists there. Vigilantes have long been part of the fabric of Arizona’s borderlands especially in remote stretches like Sasabe. But Dora Rodriguez, an aid worker the Tucson Samaritans and Salvavision, says as the number of asylum seekers has
Residents of the besieged Mexican town of Sásabe say they feel abandoned by the government as they wait for the violent conflict between criminal factions to resolve.
As border officers and aid workers respond to a high number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving at the Lukeville Port of Entry, another humanitarian disaster is brewing along a different remote stretch of the Arizona-Sonora border. In recent weeks, dozens and sometimes hundreds of migrants have gathered along a gap in the border wall about 15 miles from the Sasabe Port of
The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries like Senegal, Bangladesh and China being dropped in a remote desert area in Arizona.
The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries like Senegal, Bangladesh and China being dropped in