A Fatal Crossing on the Northern Border

A family of four had become separated from a group, left to battle for survival during a fierce blizzard.Credit…Dan Koeck for The New York Times PEMBINA, N.D. — The air temperature was pushing 20 below zero and howling winds were whipping up blinding snow one morning in January when U.S. Border Patrol agents in North Dakota spotted five human forms moving through the barren borderland where America and Canada meet.

They were migrants from India: listless, disoriented and determined to reach the United States along one of its most desolate frontiers. They had been trudging through knee- to waist-deep snow […]

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