President Donald Trump has thrust the military into a central role in deterring illegal crossings into the U.S. at its southern border.
The strategy is playing out in Arizona’s border community of Nogales, where an Army scout used an optical scope this week to find a man atop the border wall and sounded the alarm.
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Grijalva said humanitarian volunteers with the nonprofit group No More Deaths reported that warrantless Border Patrol agents forced their way into their desert aid station and arrested three migrants who were resting inside a trailer. -
No More Deaths volunteers have for years offered aid to migrants traversing the Arizona borderlands at Byrd Camp, a collection of trailers and other structures that sit on a property in the middle of rugged desert terrain a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
