The Beginning of a Long Hot Summer for Migrants: Get Your Kicks on Route 66?

The Beginning of a Long Hot Summer for Migrants:  Get Your Kicks on Route 66?
Photo courtesy of Teresa Ragusi (June 4, 2026)

It was a reported 109 degrees on Route 66 in the Arizona desert near Lake Havasu today. Imagine the journey of migrants on foot through the desert. Deaths of migrants due to heat is all-too-common. And it is not even officially summer yet.

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The Conversation:  US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation

The Conversation: US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation

Karen Masterson in The Conversation (US migrant flights to Liberia evoke troubling history of sending people deemed unwanted to the West African nation) offers interesting historical background to the Supreme Court’s recent decision to temporarily allow the United States to resume deporting migrants to third-country destinations: "[T]he

By Kevin R. Johnson