U.S. Border Patrol and sheriff’s departments are recording high numbers of illegal immigrant deaths as the summer heat kicks in. In June, 109 bodies were recovered by Border Patrol, up from 61 in May, according to preliminary numbers obtained by Jaeson Jones, host of “Tripwires & Triggers,” from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). That brings the total for fiscal 2021 to 321 bodies recovered by Border Patrol, with three months to go. The majority of deaths over the summer months are due to dehydration and hypothermia as illegal immigrants traverse desert and remote ranchland to avoid Border Patrol checkpoints. Water is scarce, it’s not hard to get lost, and smugglers will leave illegal immigrants behind if they’re slow or injured. “To avoid death or injury from severe dehydration, a person walking across the landscape in the heat of summer must consume no less than two gallons of water per day,” …