My heart sure goes out to our Canadian neighbors who are in the midst of the horrible fires. There have been several hundred fires already this year and, as I write this, there are about.
Dual language immersion students are meeting or exceeding state standards in math and language arts at slightly higher rates than students in traditional English-only education at PSUSD.
Contractors using dynamite to pulverize mountaintops in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona are forever reshaping the landscape.
The U.S. Border Patrol keeps its own statistics, counting the remains of suspected migrants that it learns about in the course of its duties, according to its parent agency, Customs and Border Protection. CBP said that if another agency recovers remains and doesn’t notify the Border Patrol, it won’t be included in its tally.
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For the first nine months of 2020, the Border Patrol listed 43 deaths in the Yuma and Tucson sectors that make up the Arizona border area. The mapping project tracked 181 deaths over the same period.
The border wall is seen on January 15, 2019 in Esperanza, Texas.
Authorities discovered the highest number migrant deaths in 10 years along the Arizona border following the hottest, driest summer faced by the state.
They said migrant deaths were recorded on mountains, deserts and valleys near the Mexico-Arizona border.
According to Fox News, recent border enforcement efforts in California and Texas drove people into the more difficult terrain to Arizona.
All the while, officials stepped up construction of a wall along the Arizona border, driving migrants into more dangerous areas that do not have access to food and water.
The Trump administration is still looking forward to more border wall constructions, mostly in Arizona, with 450 additional miles to be built by year s end.