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[Rblissfam at cs.com]

The following article says what a gigantic problem we are tolerating as 
desparate people are dying on the US/Mexico border....without a small blurb in our 
papers.  My daughter met face to face with such a potential victim herself 
during the time this article was written last week.  Maybe this is an area that 
Quakers need to take a bigger interest.

Rachael bliss



Twelve Die on the US Border: A New 'Season of Death' Begins 

    
Marc Cooper
    
    
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A grim toll of a dozen fatalities in just three days marks the rapid onset of 
this year's season of death along the US-Mexican border. As temperatures 
suddenly soared in southern Arizona this past week, so did border-crossing deaths. 
Twelve border crossers were listed as dead in Arizona between last Friday and 
Monday. Border Patrol agents in western Arizona called this past weekend the 
busiest ever in a three-day period as they made forty rescues. An equal number 
were chalked up by agents in the Tucson sector. 
Corpses of the crossers were scattered among different sectors of the border, 
with a majority found in the relatively unpopulated western part of the 
state. "What scares me is that there just continues to be very widely scattered 
deaths," said the Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of Humane Borders, a group that puts 
out jugs of water in remote areas used by illegal crossers. 
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    US border control policy over the past decade has increasingly funneled 
the immigrant flow into ever more rugged and dangerous terrain. More than 3,000 
people have died trying to make the crossing in the past decade. 
More than 200 extra Border Patrol agents were deployed in Arizona precisely 
to prevent such deaths this summer. Last year about 200 people died crossing 
the line in Arizona. An almost equal number perished in California and Texas. 
This past weekend's macabre tally comes as the national immigration debate 
simmers and as the first comprehensive immigration reform bill has been <A HREF="http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20050606&s=cooper">
introduced in Congress</A>. 
The news of the border deaths this past weekend received minimal coverage, 
only a tiny fraction of the attention afforded last month to the 
shut-the-borders campaign staged by the Minuteman Project. 
Just last week the Mexican Consulate undertook a public education campaign 
warning crossers that at this time of year they will face lethal conditions. 


    
    

 
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