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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2008 
Hundreds Die at US Southern Border
 Prensa Latina
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| | 411 Mexicans died last year on the border trying to enter the United States. Of this number, only 260 corpses were positively identified, while the rest are pending recognition. | | |
Mexico City - The Mexican Foreign Secretary's office reported on Monday that 411 Mexicans died last year on the border trying to enter the United States to look for work.
Of this number, only 260 corpses were positively identified, while the rest are pending recognition.
The Mexican border with the state of Arizona is the most dangerous for people entering illegally: 299 of them died there, while 118 died in Texas and nine in California.
Using official statistics, the secretary's office said 37 percent of the deaths between 2000 and 2007 occurred in the corridor between Sonora and Arizona, a dangerous desert zone.
Almost 1,500 people were rescued at the border when they found themselves in difficult situations.
Harassment and repression by the fearsome US Border Patrol force those who try to cross the border to head away from urban areas and into dangerous inhospitable places, where many die of thirst, heart attacks, and even by people smugglers, who kill them after taking their money to bring them to the United States.
Experts of the North Border College revealed that the routes followed by people entering illegally change according to the surveillance level used by the US migration authorities, which also increases the danger, especially when entire families try to cross the border. |
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