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GUEST: Kat Rodriguez, Coordinator of Derechos Humanos in Tucson, Arizona, one of the principle sponsors of the March for Migrants, Hamid Khan, Executive Director, and Joyti Chand, Lead Advocate, with the LA-based South Asian Network

As we head into the summer, triple digit temperatures along the Arizona-Mexico border are expected to result in untold numbers of migrants deaths from heat exposure. Every year, and particularly during the summer months, at minimum, dozens of migrants from Mexico and Central America die while crossing into the US. Border Patrol agents claim that there has been a dramatic drop in deaths and in the numbers of people crossing overall, citing greater enforcement along the border, workplace raids in the US and a receding US economy. But immigrant advocates counter that recent crackdowns have simply driven people deeper into more treacherous territory. To draw attention to those who die in the desert, hundreds of activists and organizers, for the fifth year in a row, walked for 75 miles from Sasabe, Sonora in Mexico on May 26th and ended in Tucson, Arizona this past Sunday June 1st.

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