‘A new normal’: Migrants huddle in open-air camps on US border without food or water

HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS who cross into the United States from Mexico each day are being herded into open-air camps, where they have no access to food or water. And some are left to sleep on the open ground in a desert riddled with scorpions and snakes, activists say. Campaigners say many will be there for days, waiting to be processed by an immigration system that is overwhelmed by - and under-prepared for - the sheer number of people. "We were told by border patrol that this is the new normal," Erika Pinheiro, executive director of the non-governmental Al Otro Lado,…