I am looking for recent numbers of deaths of Mexican illegal migrants on the US / Mexico border for 2000-present, listed by both border sector and cause of death. I have looked everywhere for this, and can't seem to find it. I know it is available, because numerous resources on the Internet state that the US started collecting these stats post 2000. Do you have any suggestions?
Contacts in US Customs and Border protection can be found HERE. They will be able to give you this information. The medical examiners in individual sectors are the ones who record cause of death. I've also attached a graph from the US Census Bureau on estimates of illegal immigrants 1990-2000 (see attached).
The San Diego Independent Media Center also has some background.
While the figures are slightly old now, Dr. Wayne Cornelius, professor of political science and U.S.-Mexico relations at the University of California at San Diego, the director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, as well as the director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, provided a quantitative analysis of Operation Gatekeeper has published a report entitled, "Death at the Border: The Efficacy and 'Unintended' Consequences of U.S. Immigration Control Policy 1993-2000" that includes statistics.
There is also this site which seems to extrapulate from the previous study's findings and lists deaths by sector.
Read Record number died crossing border in '05 from the San Francisco Chronicle October 5, 2005.
Also these articles are full text in EBSCOhost database, which you may be able to get from your local public or academic library:
also look into the book by Ken Ellingwood entitled, HARD LINE: Life and Death on the U.S. Mexico Border.
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