The border crackdown near San Diego is causing illegal immigrants to try crossing on foot through the mountains in eastern San Diego county. But most are unprepared for the snow and cold weather and several have frozen to death trying to get across. Human rights groups blame the Border Patrol for forcing the immigrants to cross through the mountains, but the Patrol blames immigrant smugglers for misleading immigrants about the dangers and then abandoning them. Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS reports.
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