Hundreds Die Every Year (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Hundreds Die Every Year

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The number of undocumented border crossers who died trying to migrate into Arizona from Mexico rose dramatically after 1994 (red arrow), when border patrol policy changed to increasingly militarize and patrol the safest, easiest passages across the US-Mexico border, funneling migrants to more difficult territories.

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Graphic by Julie McMahon

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