1.   He shudders still with the memory of the loss of his forefathers upon its scorching deserts and forbidding mountain-tops.

2.   But like a vision of cool water in the scorching desert, this, too, is a mirage.

3.   Raise the issue of illegal immigrants sneaking across the border, and images come to mind of people wading across the Rio Grande or hiking across a scorching desert.

4.   A toddler wandered alone through the scorching desert of northern Mexico for two hours after his parents died of carbon monoxide poisoning in an irrigation ditch.

5.   Fenced out by a roll of rusty barbed wire, hundreds of Afghan refugees crouch on the barren ground, with no shelter from the scorching desert sun.

6.   However, meteorologists quickly blamed scorching desert winds from the northwest, not the greenhouse effect or deforestation.

7.   The center tests its wheat and corn in the scorching desert of northern Mexico, in the muggy lowlands along the Gulf of Mexico and in the central mountains.

8.   The group was trying to enter the United States illegally but was abandoned by their smugglers near the border and spent nearly a week wandering in the scorching desert.

9.   They will patrol scorching deserts and the most dangerous stretches of the Rio Grande.

10.   Tighter border security in California and Texas have forced many migrants to cross the scorching deserts of Arizona.