{"id":3118,"date":"2019-01-29T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2019-01-29T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:32:25","slug":"the-trek-across-the-border-veers-into-more-and-more-remote-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/the-trek-across-the-border-veers-into-more-and-more-remote-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trek Across the Border Veers Into More and More Remote Terrain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Simon Romero<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Caitlin Dickerson<\/a>– Article from the New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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ANTELOPE WELLS, N.M. \u2014 The Border Patrol\u2019s tiny base in the southwest corner of New Mexico is so remote that the wind howls through the surrounding basin where\u00a0jaguars<\/a>\u00a0still stalk their prey.<\/p>\n

But that hasn\u2019t stopped thousands of Central Americans from journeying in recent weeks to the rural outpost and other isolated points along the Southwest border, launching increasingly desperate bids for asylum in the United States.<\/p>\n

In a two-day span in January, 362 migrants\u00a0surrendered<\/a>\u00a0to the Border Patrol in Antelope Wells, overwhelming the small base\u2019s capacity to process asylum requests. Last week, a\u00a0new group<\/a>\u00a0of 306 migrants arrived at the same location, including children in need of immediate medical care \u2014 a situation officials in New Mexico say is without precedent.<\/p>\n

Prompting these trips to ever-more-remote border locations are not only the nearly 700 miles of\u00a0border wall and fencing<\/a>\u00a0built since 2006, but the Trump administration\u2019s increasingly rigid immigration policies aimed at deterring the flow of migrant families, mostly from Central America, that have streamed in from Mexico since 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n