Arizona rancher describes life on the forefront of the border crisis

‘That’s a rape tree,’ he said, pointing out the women’s clothes thrown into the thorny branches. 

‘Almost all the women who come across get raped by their guides, who then they throw their underwear in the trees.’

The trees have been spotted up and down the border. Academics talk of them as warnings or trophies in the brutal symbolism of violent gangs. 

17 dead bodies, rape trees and migrants crawling on his land: Arizona rancher armed with a Glock describes life on the frontlines of the border crisis as Republicans push bill to allow landowners to shoot trespassers