Migrants, Border Patrol fear deadliest summer yet for those crossing the border

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

SASABE, Mexico -- Wearing tight jeans and a glittery "bebe" T-shirt, the 17-year-old scrambled out of a packed van as the temperature edged toward 90 degrees in this barren stretch of the U.S.-Mexican border.

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