Border Patrol finds three bodies in New Mexico desert

 

People on the move continue to die in a deadly Southern New Mexico desert corridor.

The U.S. Border Patrol confirmed its agents located three deceased individuals last Monday near its Santa Teresa, New Mexico, station.

The area, extending several miles west from NM Highway 9 near the Santa Teresa border crossing to Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, is one of the most active migrant-smuggling corridors in the Southwest border, federal officials say.

The Border Patrol said Monday’s grim find raises to 138 the number of people who’ve perished in the desert, in the Rio Grande and parallel irrigation canals, on Mount Cristo Rey and along the border wall in a sector that runs from Hudspeth County, Texas, to El Paso, to the New Mexico-Arizona state line.

The total is just 11 shy of last year’s record 149 migrant deaths in the sector. The Border Patrol continues to push English- and Spanish-language public safety announcements online for migrants to abstain from crossing the border illegally between ports of entry...more