Quote:AZ Border Patrol Agents Rescue 57 Illegal Immigrants in Record Heat

Border Patrol agents rescued a large number of distressed Central American migrants abandoned by smugglers in 108 degree heat on Friday near the Mexican border in Arizona.

The group of 57 illegal aliens hailed from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and included a teenaged pregnant female as well as a one-year-old child:

Someone from within the group called the 9-1-1 center in Sonora, Mexico and requested assistance after crossing the border illegally. The 9-1-1 center alerted Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents, who immediately responded to the scene, along with agents from CBP Air and Marine Operations.

According to DHS, "agents encountered 21 adults, 36 minors, 17 of which were unaccompanied, to include a one-year-old toddler."

Although several people in the group "appeared to be dehydrated," according to the medically trained agents at the scene, only one person -- the teenaged pregnant female -- required further medical attention. She was provided intravenous fluids by Border Patrol EMT’s for dehydration, and was transported to a local area hospital for further treatment.



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Nope...that'll never make the news

People die all the time trying to cross the border in remote places. Posted this article on the effectiveness of the wall in San Diego (630,000 captured crossing in 1986, 32,000 last year).

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news...story.html

"...Holtville is home to Terrace Park Cemetery, final resting place of hundreds of migrants. Blocked to the west by fences, they ventured into the mountains and deserts of Imperial and San Diego counties, where they succumbed to heat stroke, dehydration and other causes.

Between 1994 and 2009, about 240 unidentified persons have been buried in Terrace Park. An unknown number of them were migrants. Plots hold another 280-plus who were identified but whose families lacked the means to pay for a funeral and grave closer to home. Most of them were from Mexico.

In recent years, unidentified migrants have been cremated, a move that saves Imperial County an estimated $860 per person.

“It’s really sad because each one of these people, they did not expect to die when they crossed the border,” said Enrique Morones, founder of Border Angels, a San Diego nonprofit.

As Zarate noted, deaths along the border pre-date the fence. Joseph Wambaugh’s 1984 nonfiction book, “Lines and Shadows,” followed a U.S. task force formed to combat murders, rapes and robberies of migrants in canyons and mesas near San Ysidro.

Today, migrants’ deaths are relatively rare in the San Diego sector — there were seven in fiscal 2016.

However, the Border Patrol reported 322 migrant deaths on the Southwest border. (The historic high, according to the agency, was 492 in 2005.) Most of these migrants perished in deserts and mountains.

Between 2000 and 2014, the International Organization for Migration said, more than 6,000 people had died while trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico...."