Thursday, June 27, 2013
Death on the Border Chapter 1001: In Arizona, border crossings down, but migrant deaths on rise
If you have been a regular reader of the ImmigrationProf blog, this really is old news. Here is another report -- this one by the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona -- about deaths along the U.S./Mexico border. As Cindy Carcoma in the Los Angeles Times summarizes:
"The numbers of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally into this country are at historical lows, but a report released Wednesday shows that the death rates among these migrants are at an all-time high in the southern Arizona desert.
The deaths have likely increased because those who still choose to cross the border illegally are traveling for longer periods of time — mostly on foot — through more remote areas to avoid detection by border enforcement officials, suggest data collected by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner."
KJ
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2013/06/death-on-the-border-chapter-1001-in-arizona-border-crossings-down-but-migrant-deaths-on-rise.html
