Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Migrants & Desert

Published on: 4 December, 2023
Archive/Aljazeera.

Archive/Aljazeera.

Every day for the past few months, over 300 migrants from all over the world have been dropped off at a miles-long gap in the border wall in the Southern California desert.

When the migrants cross it, they are on the outskirts of the tiny community of Jacumba, California – population about 600.

The U.S. Border Patrol then ushers them into a series of “camps”.

Migrants find themselves in the desert and have built themselves makeshift tents with tarps, rocks and gathered wood.

Activists and locals are calling it a humanitarian disaster, and no one is helping them especially as more people will succumb to death when cold temperatures settle in.

The migrants include an array of people from around the globe, including Afghans, Kurds, Chinese, Latin Americans and others.

Aljazeera.