Smugglers abandoned group of 57 illegal immigrant men, women and children as young as one in the desert on US side of border and they are rescued by the border Patrol team.


The group rescued in 108-degree heat on Friday west of Lukeville, Arizona included an underage pregnant female and 36 total minors as young as one, 17 of whom were unaccompanied. The stranded migrants were from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, according Customs and Border Patrol. The border in the area, which on the US side is Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, runs only a few hundred feet from a Mexican highway and is physically controlled by a waist-high vehicle barrier and sensors.

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