The other Death Valley: hundreds of migrants are dying in remote Texas deserts

Immigration policies have forced desperate people to traverse inhospitable landscapes along the US-Mexico border

Eddie Canales can't forget the moment he saw the decomposed body of a young man in his 20s hanging from an oak tree on a south Texas ranch last September.

The intense heat and humidity in this arid scrubland had quickly rotted his flesh to expose much of the skeleton, which had been at the scene for at least a week.