Border Patrol authorities in El Paso, Texas, are resorting to pleading with the family members of potential migrants to convince them not to try to cross the U.S. southern border, as the amounts of deaths amid scorching temperatures continues to soar.
Concretely, the sector stretching from Hudspeth County to the New Mexico-Arizona state line has recorded 140 deaths so far this fiscal year, which began last October. That is almost the same amount as the entire fiscal year 2023, when 149 fatalities were recorded, but with a little over two months to go.
