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A Deadly Detour: Texas policy, heat fuel rise in migrant deaths - NBC News
Operation Lone Star and extreme heat have transformed a small patch of desert in the suburbs of El Paso into one of the most dangerous stretches of the southern border--with the number of migrant deaths in the area 10 times what it was in 2021.