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Old 09-10-2020, 05:55 PM
 
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In case you wondered why the problems had gotten worse.


Death in the Desert
How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert into a Graveyard for Migrants

According to the Border Patrol, just under 8,000 migrants have turned up dead on the Southern border since 1998. The real number is probably much higher, but even going by the Border Patrol’s estimates, that is a rate of about one migrant death per day, every day of the last 22 years. Slightly less than half of those deaths occur in southern Arizona, most in the Sonoran Desert. Almost all the bodies found there end up at the medical examiner’s office in Tucson.

The Mexican organizations, meanwhile, had introduced their signature military prowess to the merged migrant and drug trades. I spoke with an undocumented migrant from Honduras who arrived at the border with no money and unattached to a coyote. If you arrive on your own this way, you are liable to be recruited or press-ganged by the plaza boss, who monitors migrant traffic for the cartel. He was taken to a safe house and was told at gunpoint that if he couldn’t come up with the money to cross, he could carry drugs. Or he could die.

https://lamaz.org/news-blog/how-us-p...d-for-migrants
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Old 09-17-2020, 12:06 PM
 
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Old 09-18-2020, 01:06 AM
 
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In case you wondered why the problems had gotten worse.


Death in the Desert
How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert into a Graveyard for Migrants

According to the Border Patrol, just under 8,000 migrants have turned up dead on the Southern border since 1998. The real number is probably much higher, but even going by the Border Patrol’s estimates, that is a rate of about one migrant death per day, every day of the last 22 years. Slightly less than half of those deaths occur in southern Arizona, most in the Sonoran Desert. Almost all the bodies found there end up at the medical examiner’s office in Tucson.

The Mexican organizations, meanwhile, had introduced their signature military prowess to the merged migrant and drug trades. I spoke with an undocumented migrant from Honduras who arrived at the border with no money and unattached to a coyote. If you arrive on your own this way, you are liable to be recruited or press-ganged by the plaza boss, who monitors migrant traffic for the cartel. He was taken to a safe house and was told at gunpoint that if he couldn’t come up with the money to cross, he could carry drugs. Or he could die.

https://lamaz.org/news-blog/how-us-p...d-for-migrants
Nearly all those migrants made the choice to come.
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Old 09-18-2020, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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Unfortunately, Voebe . . . these un-prepared ILLEGALS entered the Desert Southwest during the Summer Months fully aware of the BRUTAL WEATHER CONDITIONS primarily seeking FREE STUFF.

Don't we have more than our fair share of STUPIDS here already.

Sorry . . . NO SYMPATHY.
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Old 09-18-2020, 11:22 AM
 
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50,000 pioneers died on the Westward Expansion Trails in the 19th century. They were there legally. The desert is a *****.
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Old 09-18-2020, 06:42 PM
 
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I'm not responsible for someone elses choices (out of desperation or otherwise). If you want to hold someone accountable, maybe convince the Mexican government to crack down on trafficking "coyotes" and NGO's who financially support these movements.
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Old 09-20-2020, 02:53 PM
 
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"In case you wondered why the problems had gotten worse."

Wasn't wondering...don't care. Stay in your own country or come here legally.

And it's not hard to avoid the desert in the summer, I don't know anyone who goes wandering around like that.....
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Old 09-21-2020, 07:57 AM
 
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And how many lives were rescued by the Border Patrol? Thousands.
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