Arizona Heat Spells Bad News for Undocumented as Death Toll Rises Hispanically Speaking News
go to original July 9, 2013

This video highlights some of the work that Arizona's humanitarian organization No More Deaths does to end suffering and some of the inhumane occurrences which have happened on the US-Mexico border.

An average of five to six undocumented immigrants are turning up dead in the desert every week amid even-hotter-than-normal summer temperatures in Arizona, authorities and human rights groups say.

According to figures compiled by the U.S. Border Patrol, June was a tragic month for immigrants who decided to illegally enter the United States via the Arizona desert, with more than 27 deaths, the majority “caused by the high temperatures and dehydration.”

“This year what we’ve seen with the Border Patrol are many more 911 calls from immigrants who’ve gotten lost in the desert. This has helped us find these people before they died,” Andres Adame, the spokesman for the Border Patrol in Arizona, told Efe.

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