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Humane Borders cites deadliest year on record for migrants crossing through Arizona border
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TUCSON (KVOA) A local non-profit that tracks migrant deaths along our southern borders says last year was the deadliest year on record for those trekking through the desert to come to the United States.
According to officials at Humane Borders, last year, they recorded 227 deaths from migrants crossing into the U.S. through the Arizona border. The reality is that last year was the deadliest year that we have on record, Tony Banegas said.
Banegas is the Chief Executive Officer for Colibri Center for Human Rights, a group that works to identify the bodies left in the desert and notify their families.
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Contractors using dynamite to pulverize mountaintops in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona are forever reshaping the landscape.
The U.S. Border Patrol keeps its own statistics, counting the remains of suspected migrants that it learns about in the course of its duties, according to its parent agency, Customs and Border Protection. CBP said that if another agency recovers remains and doesn’t notify the Border Patrol, it won’t be included in its tally.
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For the first nine months of 2020, the Border Patrol listed 43 deaths in the Yuma and Tucson sectors that make up the Arizona border area. The mapping project tracked 181 deaths over the same period.
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In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
DOUGLAS, AZ Heat exposure killed 19-year-old Cesar de la Cruz on an Arizona trail in July during his trek up from southern Mexico. The body of Juan Lopez Valencia, another young Mexican man, was discovered Aug. 3 along a dry wash on Native American land.
After the hottest, driest summer in state history, authorities have recovered close to a 10-year record in the number of bodies of people who crossed from Mexico into Arizona s deserts, valleys and mountains. It s a reminder that the most remote paths to enter the U.S. can be the deadliest.