Hundreds of migrants who cross into the United States each day are being herded into open-air camps, where they have no access to food or water, while some are left to sleep on the open ground in a desert riddled with scorpions and snakes, activists say. "We were told by the border patrol that this is the new normal," says Erika Pinheiro, executive director of the NGO “Al otro lado.” IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES