Tighter border security means more migrants die while trying to enter US, according to Amnesty

[Judi Lynn]

Tighter border security means more migrants die while trying to enter US, according to Amnesty

Large number of unidentified bodies found in Arizona over past decade

Thu, May 23, 2013, 13:16
First published:Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:00

The remains of 45 suspected migrants from Mexico and beyond rest in body bags and zippered pouches in Bruce Anderson’s office at Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office in Arizona.

Anderson, a forensic anthropologist, has paper records for several hundred more people whose remains were found over the past 12 years in the deserts of the American state bordering Mexico.

Of about 2,100 remains found over that period in 10 counties falling under the Pima County’s office, it has identified about 1,300 people; the identities of 791 people remain unknown.

Four counties within Pima County’s areas have the highest recorded number of migrant deaths over recent years of any area along the 1,969-mile border separating the United States and Mexico.

The bulk of those identified, around 85 per cent, came from Mexico; the rest were from Guatemala and El Salvador and as far away as the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Brazil.

More:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/tighter-border-security-means-more-migrants-die-while-trying-to-enter-us-according-to-amnesty-1.1403313

[earthside]

1. Don't do it!

Message to those who would try and enter the United States illegally: don't do it!

[WestStar]

2. Tighter border security means more migrants die?

Seems to me that if the border was more secure fewer migrants would end up wandering in the desert.

And where is the condemnation for Mexico and the rest of the Latin American countries that allow this to happen to their citizens?

At the very least they should post warning signs telling those poor people that Phoenix isn't a 15 minute walk from the border as many of then have been told.