Pastor-led group seeks missing migrants in border desert


              The rugged Baboquivari Mountains cut through the Sonoran Desert as seen from a US Customs and Border Protection helicopter, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. This desert region located in the Tucson sector is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. his section of the border consists of wall, bollards or no barrier at all and has become a corridor of choice for migrants who don't turn themselves in right after crossing or apply for protection legally. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              A 12-year-old migrant boy is questioned after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Casey Russell, an air and marine interdiction agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protectio, patrols above the 30-foot high wall along the border with Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, in Sasabe, Ariz. Dramatic elevation drops, mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months are common along the wall in this region at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains in the Tucson sector. This stretch is one of the deadliest along the international border. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              A migrant is led to transport after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              The wall along the border between the United States and Mexico, at right, abruptly ends as it cuts through the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. This border section consists of wall, bollards or no barrier at all and has become a corridor of choice for migrants who don't turn themselves in right after crossing or apply for protection legally. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              A group of migrants are processed after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              A U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols along the 30-foot high border wall, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, in Sasabe, Ariz. Dramatic elevation drops, mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months are common along the wall in this region at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains in the Tucson sector. This stretch is one of the deadliest along the international border. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              A migrant is searched before transport after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Migrants are processed after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              The International border wall, with Mexico to the top, abruptly ends as it cuts through the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. The border consists of wall, bollards or no barrier at all and has become a corridor of choice for those who don't turn themselves in right after crossing or apply for protection legally. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Vasavilbaso looks into Mexico at a breach in the 30-foot-high border wall where a gate was never installed due to a halt in construction, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, in Sasabe, Ariz. The wall, in a region at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains located in the Tucson sector, is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              A 38-year-old man from Mexico City, left, is helped down a mountain by Daniel Bolin, a search, trauma and rescue agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, right, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The migrant called 911 after nearly dying atop Baboquivari Peak after developing debilitating foot blisters with no food or water. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              A 38-year-old man from Mexico City sits in a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. after being rescued by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. He nearly died atop Baboquivari Peak about 14 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border after developing debilitating foot blisters with no food or water. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Air and Marine Operations Air Interdiction Agent Casey Russell searches above the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Vasavilbaso, aided by a Black Hawk helicopter, searches for a group of migrants evading capture in the desert brush at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Azhar Dabdoub moves newly arrived caskets inside his funeral home, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Tucson, Ariz. The caskets are customized with a small viewing window so families can see something of their relative, even if just a small belonging Dabdoub tapes to the glass. Last week he sent the bodies of five migrants to Guatemala and one to El Salvador. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              Migrants are handcuffed after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              The border between the United States and Mexico, at right, cuts through the Sonoran Desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. This section of the border consists of wall, bollards or no barrier at all and has become a corridor of choice for migrants who don't turn themselves in right after crossing or apply for protection legally. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              Migrants are led through desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. by U.S. Border Patrol agents. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Mirza Monterroso, a forensic scientist and missing migrant program director for the Colibrí Center, a Tucson-based group that works with the Medical Examiner's office, looks at items found with missing migrants' remains, Wednesday, Sept. 7 2022, at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson, Ariz. The items her office collects are helpful with identifying remains of missing migrants. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              A 12-year-old migrant is searched before transport after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              A mountain lion is seen early Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022, in Ironwood Forest National Monument near Marana, Ariz. Wild animals are one of many threats migrants face while crossing the desert. Volunteer group Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains), headed by La Iglesia en el Camino (The Church on the Way) [cut] Oscar Andrade, provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. The group has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              U.S. Border Patrol agents, aided by a dog and a Black Hawk helicopter, search for a group of migrants evading capture at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. TThe desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Oscar Andrade, who heads a group that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants, compares his photo of a worn shoe next to a human skull, top, with a photo of the same brand of shoe sent by a relative of a missing Mexican migrant, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Tucson, Ariz. During the pastor's fourth search for the missing man, he found his ID card in a wallet 40 feet from skeletal remains picked clean by animals deep in the Tohono O'odham Reservation. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              A migrant answers questions after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Yovani Santos, a volunteer with the rescue and recovery group Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains), holds his new CPR accreditation card, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Tucson, Ariz. The group has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              Apprehended migrants are processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the desert brush at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Oscar Andrade speaks to volunteers with the rescue and recovery group Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains) at La Iglesia en el Camino (The Church on the Way), Tuesday, Sept 6, 2022 in Tucson, Ariz. The pastor heads a group that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. Andrade has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              U.S. Border Patrol agents, aided by a K-9 and a Blackhawk, search for a group of migrants evading capture at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              La Iglesia en el Camino (The Church on the Way) Pastor Óscar Andrade, right, searches with volunteers, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 , in the Ironwood Forest National Monument in Marana, Ariz., for a missing Honduran migrant. Andrade heads a group that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. Andrade has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              Recent discoveries from the Desert Chaplains rescue and recovery group which got more than 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives – sick, injured or exhausted – were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands.
            
              A migrant has his handcuffs removed before transport after being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border, with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Oscar Andrade speaks to Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains) rescue and recovery group volunteers at La Iglesia en el Camino (The Church on the Way), Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Tucson, Ariz. The pastor heads a group that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. Andrade has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
            
              Migrants climb through a fence in the desert at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains after they were apprehended Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. by U.S. Border Patrol agents. The desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York)
            
              Óscar Andrade prays early, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022 in the Ironwood Forest National Monument near Marana, Ariz., before searching for a missing Honduran migrant. The pastor heads a group, Capellanes del Desierto (Desert Chaplains), that provides recovery efforts for families of missing migrants. Andrade has received over 400 calls from families in Mexico and Central America whose relatives, sick, injured or exhausted, were left behind by smugglers in the borderlands. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)
Pastor-led group seeks missing migrants in border desert