{"id":3878,"date":"2024-04-11T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2024-04-11T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T09:33:11","slug":"24-hours-at-a-makeshift-refuge-for-migrants-in-the-california-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"24 Hours at a Makeshift Refuge for Migrants in the California Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was 1:53 a.m., and Peter Fink was on a barren mountain plateau near Campo, Calif., passing out blankets to people from four continents who had arrived there under the cover of night.<\/p>\n

This was a nocturnal ritual for the 22-year-old, dressed in a ball cap and a wool overshirt, whose perch \u2014 just over 300 yards up a rocky incline from the United States-Mexico border wall \u2014 had become a round-the-clock boarding space for people who had crossed unlawfully onto American soil.<\/p>\n

With Mexico\u2019s armed National Guard <\/span>now stationed at the most popular crossing sites along southeastern San Diego County, migrant routes have shifted further into the remote wilderness, where people face more extreme terrains and temperatures with little to no infrastructure to keep them alive.<\/p>\n

For migrants who were aiming to be apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents and begin applying to stay in the country, Mr. Fink\u2019s makeshift camp, a dirt patch under the lattices of a high-voltage tower, had become a first stop, where modest rations of donated food, water and firewood helped migrants survive while they waited for agents to traverse the landscape and detain them before their health languished dangerously.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At this site and others along the border, migrants have waited for hours or sometimes days<\/a> to be taken into custody, and a Federal District Court judge ruled<\/a> last week that the Border Patrol must move \u201cexpeditiously\u201d to get children into safe and sanitary shelters. But unlike outdoor waiting areas that had arisen in more populated areas, Mr. Fink\u2019s site had no aid tents or medical volunteers, no dumpsters or port-a-potties \u2014 just a hole that he had dug as a communal toilet, and Mr. Fink himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Michelle Cuenca, 28, with her son, Ezequiel Molina, 9, waited inside a tent. They arrived after walking for seven hours without food, though they felt their journey had been easier than most.<\/span>Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was 1:53 a.m., and Peter Fink was on a barren mountain plateau near Campo, Calif., passing out blankets to people from four continents who had arrived there under the cover of night.This was a nocturnal ritual for the 22-year-old, dressed in a ball cap and a wool overshirt, whose perch \u2014 just over 300 yards up a rocky incline from the United States-Mexico border wall \u2014 had become a round-the-clock boarding space for people who had crossed unlawfully onto American soil.With Mexico\u2019s armed National Guard now stationed at the most popular crossing sites along southeastern San Diego County, migrant routes have shifted further into the remote wilderness, where people face more extreme terrains and temperatures with little to no infrastructure to keep them alive.For migrants who were aiming to be apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol agents and begin applying to stay in the country, Mr. Fink\u2019s makeshift camp, a dirt patch under the lattices of a high-voltage tower, had become a first stop, where modest rations of donated food, water and firewood helped migrants survive while they waited for agents to traverse the landscape and detain them before their health languished dangerously.At this site and others along the border, migrants have waited for hours or sometimes days to be taken into custody, and a Federal District Court judge ruled last week that the Border Patrol must move \u201cexpeditiously\u201d to get children into safe and sanitary shelters. But unlike outdoor waiting areas that had arisen in more populated areas, Mr. Fink\u2019s site had no aid tents or medical volunteers, no dumpsters or port-a-potties \u2014 just a hole that he had dug as a communal toilet, and Mr. Fink himself.Michelle Cuenca, 28, with her son, Ezequiel Molina, 9, waited inside a tent. They arrived after walking for seven hours without food, though they felt their journey had been easier than most.Ariana Drehsler for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3880,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}