A Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: New Estimates of Deaths Among Unauthorized Immigrants

by Daniel Martinez; Inez Magdalena Duarte; M. Melissa McCormick; Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith

Feb 1, 2007

In the mid-1990s, the U.S. government's deterrence approach to immigration control militarized the U.S.-Mexico border, closed off major urban points of unauthorized migration in Texas and California, and funneled hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants through southern Arizonaas deserts and mountains. As a result, immigrant deaths along the border have increased dramatically.

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