Death and the US-Mexican Border

According to the Arizona Coalition of Human Rights, 2,104 undocumented immigrants have died in the last decade along the US- Mexican border.  Over ten percent (253) of the deaths occurred during the 2010 fiscal year, including 170 males, 32 women, and 51 unknown.  The dead come from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, and, surprisingly I guess, the Dominican Republic.  Okay, we don't know how many were from the DR, but I still wasn't expecting it to show up.

 

The coalition's death totals come from coroners offices in the border counties.  The totals wouldn't include, obviously, undocumented immigrants who perished in the desert and whose bodies have not yet been recovered.  It's also quite likely that the organization does not have information from all the offices. 

Given these limitations, we can think of these figures as the lower limit.  If anything, the numbers are higher.