With no official record-keeping system, the exact number of illegal border crossers who died along Arizona's stretch of U.S.-Mexican border has never been know. In the summer of 2004, the Arizona Daily Star started compiling border deaths recorded by Pima, Cochise and Yuma County medical examiners in an effort to present an accurate tally of the numbers of people who die crossing into the United States illegally through Southern Arizona. The Pima County Medical Examiner's Office handles bodies found in Santa Cruz and Pinal Counties as well....
Where are the arrests of the people responsible for transporting them? These numbers reflect ONLY three counties in Arizona.
2004: 168
2005: 198
2006: 169
2007: 211
2008: 168
2009: 186
2010: 225
2011: 182
2012: 157
2013: 167
2004: 168
2005: 198
2006: 169
2007: 211
2008: 168
2009: 186
2010: 225
2011: 182
2012: 157
2013: 167
