![]() We have seen 30 to 40 (year olds), young adults, minors – not infants, those we haven’t seen,” the watch commander said. Still, agents often find people already deceased or beyond help. Migrants do not have sufficient water and there is minimal shade,” the Border Patrol said in a statement to Border Report. “We are currently recording a significant number of migrant deaths in New Mexico due to the desert terrain and extreme heat. But agency officials suspect most of them are migrants. The Border Patrol says only medical examiners in the county where the bodies are found can definitively determine the identities of the bodies. Border agents only found 29 bodies in that area in all of fiscal year 2022. It stretches from Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park to near Columbus, New Mexico. Most of the bodies (69) were found in the Santa Teresa Border Patrol Station area of responsibility. The plea comes as the number of deceased individuals found by border agents in the El Paso Sector this fiscal year reached 96 this week. Border Patrol is again calling on migrants not to trust smugglers who are telling them it’s safe to cross the southern New Mexico desert in triple-digit heat. SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (Border Patrol) – The U.S.
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