Open-air sites for migrants on Arizona border

Hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers are waiting for processing in a remote stretch of desert along the Arizona border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. This marks the latest in a months-long increase of arrivals in the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector. Alisa Reznick of public radio station KJZZ reports.

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