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Ajo Residents, Activists Protest Inhumane Conditions for Asylum Seekers

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Ajo Residents, Activists Protest Inhumane Conditions for Asylum Seekers

People still being held outside during punishing heatwave at the remote Ajo Border Patrol station in Arizona.

Melissa del Bosque
Aug 15, 2023
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It felt like walking into the mouth of a furnace as we climbed the hill, near Ajo, Arizona, sidestepping cholla and cactus. The Southwest had been under an excessive heat warning for weeks. It was so hot, a local resident claimed that the saguaros at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument were boiling inside.

Wearing hats and carrying binoculars, Ana Sa…

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