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With summer fast approaching, border officials warn more migrant deaths likely in Arizona desert

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rangerrebew:

With summer fast approaching, border officials warn more migrant deaths likely in Arizona desert
Immigration

by: Associated Press   
Posted: May 14, 2021 / 01:01 PM GMT-0600   / Updated: May 14, 2021 / 01:01 PM GMT-0600   

U.S. border officials and migrant safety advocates are warning of the potential for more migrant deaths in the remote stretches of Arizona desert and mountains, as the blistering summer heat in the region approaches.

“You have people who cross in the flatlands with two gallons of water thinking they’re going to walk to Phoenix because they’ve been told that and they’ve been misled,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official Michael Montgomery said during a briefing Thursday.

Montgomery is Tucson Air Branch Director for CBP.

https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/immigration/with-summer-fast-approaching-border-officials-warn-more-migrant-deaths-likely-in-arizona-desert/

Cyber Liberty:
The Republicans of Arizona will be blamed for the deaths, because it's our fault we have this Desert thing laying around, and we did nothing about it.  Because Science.

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