IN-DEPTH: Midnight at the Border—An Arizona Police Officer’s Encounter With Illegal Immigrants After Title 42 Ends

An unmarked bus makes its way along the southern border fence in San Luis, Ariz., ostensibly to retrieved asylum seekers arriving from Mexico. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

SAN LUIS, Ariz.—A tiny flickering glow from a small flashlight gave away the handful of illegal immigrants walking along the border fence in Mexico in the darkness at about midnight on May 11.

Lt. Marco Santana of the San Luis Police Department in Arizona hit the brakes on the pickup truck he was driving and shone his spotlight on the fence, and the movement stopped.