Feds won't close 'remote area' in national monument

摘要

Despite a recent surge of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in a remote area of the Organ PipeCactus National Monument, park leadership said this week there are no plans to close off those public lands tovisitors.U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the apprehension of nearly 500 migrants last month in thesouthwestern Arizona monument (Greenwire, May 8).Border Patrol agents reported the immigrants, mostly family units from Central America, crossed beneath vehiclebarriers into a "remote area" of the monument about 14 miles west of the Port of Lukeville.