At least six park rangers from Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Death Valley National Park, and the Desert National Wildlife Refuge have been sent to the US/Mexico border to serve three-week deployments at parks near the border.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the deployments are part of a program begun by the Department of Interior 12 months ago at the direction of then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who ordered the deployments as part of increased enforcement by the U.S. Border Patrol.
A spokeswoman for Death Valley National Park said rangers from the park had been sent, one at a time, to several sites along the border, including Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona.
