More deaths reported on U.S.-Mexico border as crossings drop

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

More deaths reported on U.S.-Mexico border as crossings drop
Published: July 20, 2013 at 2:12 PM

FALFURRIAS, Texas, July 20 (UPI) -- The number of people trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico is down but more people are dying in the attempt, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

The agency said it found 476 bodies believed to be those of illegal border crossers in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2012, USA Today reported Saturday. That was up from 380 in 2000.

The patrol has reported 380 bodies since Oct. 1. More deaths tend to occur in the summer, when many would-be immigrants die from thirst and heat exhaustion.

Agents caught 1.7 illegal border crossers in 2000, and the figure fell to 365,000 last year.

Rolando Gutierrez, a deputy in Brooks County, Texas, on the border with Mexico, said he did not realize when he became a police officer that dealing with the bodies of border crossers would be such a big part of the job.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/07/20/More-deaths-reported-on-US-Mexico-border-as-crossings-drop/UPI-66591374343966/

[mucifer]

1. I'm a home hospice nurse and I have heard about this anecdotally from my patients

and their families. Families are now separated and are lucky if they can skype. People these days can't get short term visas to be with their dying grandchildren in their final days like they did years ago when I started. People are afraid of dying on the boarder.

[totodeinhere]

2. Imagine how desperate some of these poor people must be that they are willing

to risk death in an attempt to get to this country.

[madrchsod]

3. sort`a like the folks who came in sail boats....

there a lot of people from europe that came here out of desperation.

[mucifer]

4. Lots of horrible stories from Mexico about the drug cartels running small towns.

But, if they are from Mexico "they can't be refugees. "

[LiberalFighter]

5. Read the article and came to 4th paragraph.

Agents caught 1.7 illegal border crossers in 2000...


yet it fell to 365,000 last year. Based on the words they used it looks like the numbers are less. Only 1.7 were caught. I wonder if the .7 was a live person?


This is an article by UPI which has as their motto "Over 100 Years of Journalistic Excellence". In a way they might be right when there are few that could be held in the same view as Helen Thomas. With her deceased the level of Journalistic Excellence is easier to reach in their minds.

[dusty trails]

6. Agents caught 1.7 illegal border crossers in 2000...

I'm guessing you mean 1.7 million ?