| These Volunteers Search for Migrants Who Go Missing Trying to Reach the U.S. Judy Woodruff - PBS NewsHour | |
| go to original February 22, 2017 |
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Jean Guerrero of KPBS and the Fronteras desk discovers crossing the border is already a dangerous journey, as she joins a group of immigrants patrolling vast swathes of desert from California to Arizona. (PBS NewsHour)
Hundreds of people die crossing the U.S.-Mexico border each year, excluding countless bodies that are never found, a number some fear will increase with the construction of an expanded wall.
A group of volunteers spends weekends rescuing migrants or recovering victims along dangerous smuggling routes.
Special correspondent Jean Guerrero of KPBS Fronteras joins them on a search.
Read the transcript at PBS NewsHour
Related: More Immigrant Deaths on Northern Mexican Border (Prensa Latina)
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