Updated through March 31, 2008
Total deaths by calendar year:
2004: 214
2005: 241
2006: 216
2007: 237
2008: 24*
(The 2008 total includes bodies found through March 31, 2008).
With no official record-keeping system, the exact number of illegal entrants who have died along the Arizona stretch of U.S.-Mexican border has never been known. In the summer of 2004, the Arizona Daily Star started compiling border deaths recorded by the Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise and Yuma County medical examiners in an effort to present an accurate tally of the numbers of people who die crossing into the United States illegally through Southern Arizona.
We hope this database provides a service to the loved ones of those who have disappeared. We also hope it helps the general public gain perspective on the number of lives lost. Data goes back to October 2003.
The numbers above reflect the total number of border deaths recorded yearly in our database from 2004-2007.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: In print, the Arizona Daily Star often reports the number of fiscal year border deaths in the Tucson Sector only, which is different than the number in this database because it doesn't include Yuma County. The fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 - Sept. 30).
All information provided by:
Pima, Cochise and Yuma county medical examiners (some information from 2004 from Mexico Secretary of Foreign Relations, and local law enforcement)
Compiled by Brady McCombs, Border Reporter, Andrew Satter, Online Producer and Michael Marizco, former Border Reporter.
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