Why The U.S. Government Is Dropping Off Migrants In Rural Arizona Towns
Drive west 100 miles from Tucson, Ariz., across the rugged and mountainous Sonoran Desert, and Highway 86 starts getting more potholed and narrow as you get close to the old copper mining town of Ajo. Here, off the historic Ajo Plaza with its ornate Spanish colonial buildings, a pair of white U.S. Border Patrol vans pulls into a dusty alley, already hot even on an early April afternoon. Two agents hop out, slide open the doors, and families with children pile out. They look exhausted and...