Smugglers are steering migrants into the hot Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : De La Torre said most migrants in the area request asylum, something far from guaranteed with the recent restrictions.
53% : During a recent visit, Associated Press journalists saw close to 100 migrants arrive in just four hours at the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona, inside Organ Pipe, as temperatures hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius).
47% : "It has been a real emergency here, a real trying situation."READ MORE: Texas trooper's accounts of bloodied and drowning migrants on U.S.-Mexico border unleashes criticismThe patrol is calling on other agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration, for help in getting migrants "out of the elements and into our processing centers as quickly as possible," De La Torre said.
46% : The migrants were among hundreds who have been trudging this summer in the scorching sun and through open storm gates in the border wall to U.S. soil, following a remote corridor in the sprawling Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument that's among the most desolate and dangerous areas in the Arizona borderlands.
44% : Temperatures hit 118 degrees Fahrenheit (47.7 degrees Celsius) just as smugglers abruptly began steering migrants from Africa and Asia here to request asylum.

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