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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.
The border wall is seen on January 15, 2019 in Esperanza, Texas.
Authorities discovered the highest number migrant deaths in 10 years along the Arizona border following the hottest, driest summer faced by the state.
They said migrant deaths were recorded on mountains, deserts and valleys near the Mexico-Arizona border.
According to Fox News, recent border enforcement efforts in California and Texas drove people into the more difficult terrain to Arizona.
All the while, officials stepped up construction of a wall along the Arizona border, driving migrants into more dangerous areas that do not have access to food and water.
The Trump administration is still looking forward to more border wall constructions, mostly in Arizona, with 450 additional miles to be built by year s end.
Dec 21, 2020
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) 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.
Enforcement efforts in neighboring states over the years have helped drive people into Arizona’s difficult terrain, and some officials and activists believe stepped-up construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall this year, largely in Arizona, also could be pushing migrants into dangerous areas without easy access to food and water.
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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.