An Increasing Number of Migrant Women Are Dying at the US-Mexico Border
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Migrant rights advocates are concerned as summer temperatures rise amid even more US-imposed asylum restrictions.
In Southern Arizona, on an over-100-degree day in June, humanitarian aid workers found a group of migrants standing in a thin slice of shade formed by the large steel slats of the border wall. Among them were a pregnant woman, an elderly woman, two women showing signs of heat exhaustion and young children. In total, about 30 people had crossed into the United States and were waiting for the Border...