Border crossings in Arizona desert spike over 100% despite record-setting heat: report
Immigrants walk along the border barrier on their way to await processing by the U.S. Border Patrol on Dec. 30, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona.
Much of the spike in new crossings has been concentrated around Lukeville, Arizona, a remote region with limited resources to hold migrants. The rise in new arrivals has caused agents to resort to placing some migrant men outside in the extreme heat in order to avoid overcrowding the agency's station in Ajo, according to the report, with CBP telling CBS News that the Ajo facility"is not equipped to hold large numbers of migrants.
While CBP acknowledged the"significant increase" in migrants crossing the border in Arizona in a statement to CBS News, the agency stressed that it hasThe Ajo Border Patrol Station in Arizona Saturday, August 5, 2023. In a statement to Fox News Digital, a CBP spokesperson said that"the Border Patrol has surged personnel and transportation resources to respond to the increase in encounters in the area – some of the hottest, most isolated, and dangerous areas of the southwest border – where individuals have been callously sent by smuggling organizations to walk for miles, often with little or no water."
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