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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.

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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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