News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

UA study: Illegal immigrant deaths tied to border policy

CLAUDINE LoMONACO

Published: 02.14.2007

Researchers at the University of Arizona released a study today that attributes the exponential increase in border deaths to U.S. policy of "funnelling" illegal immigrants away from urban areas in Texas and California and into Arizona's harsh deserts.

Arizona accounts for a third to half of the 2,000 to 3,000 bodies of men, women and children found along the nearly 2,000 miles of the southern border over the last 10 years. Researchers at the University's Binational Migration Institute focused on deaths examined by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office over a 15-year period to assess how the nature and character of the deaths have changed. The Pima County Medical Examiner's Office handled 90 percent of the Arizona deaths.

Are they saying that because the US is doing a better job of preventing foreign nationals from invading our country through illegally crossing the border that we are to blame for the increase in deaths? I'm sure that someone in the MSM will take that position. -mm

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