US border policy increases migrant deaths 20-fold in Arizona desert

In the mid-nineties US policy towards Mexico changed in two significant ways that eventually set the stage for the current "immigration crisis." In January 1994, NAFTA went into effect and a new era of prosperity and progress was to begin in Mexico. At the same time, a new strategy was enacted along the southern border intended to stem the flow of unauthorized migrants. The policy of “prevention through deterrence” involved quintupling border-enforcement expenditures, building new fortified checkpoints, high-tech surveillance, and deploying thousands of additional Border Patrol Agents. Additionally, border barriers were built along portions of the California and Texas border to prevent migrants from entering through the most highly trafficked urban areas.

More than a decade later it's become evident that the promises of these two policies, rather than bringing economic change to Mexico and decreasing unauthorized migration to the US, have led to conditions that more than doubled the flow of immigration….and brought added death to the border.

NAFTA, while bringing trade and investment to Mexico, has had unintended negative consequences on both sides of the border for working people and the poor. Whole segments of the US manufacturing sector have been relocated to Mexico resulting in job loss for US workers. At the same time, the lifting for trade restrictions in Mexico have allowed cheaper US commodities to enter the country, decimating Mexican agricultural markets and throwing millions of small farmers out of business. Additionally, the availability of even cheaper labor sources in places like China has forced manufacturing wages to go down.

As for the policy of "prevention through deterrence", all it has really accomplished in the past thirteen years is a movement of the routes of migration from relatively safe urban areas like San Diego and El Paso to the hostile desert and mountainous regions where enforcement is difficult. This "funneling effect" of forcing migrants into least hospitable areas has had devastating effects for those on both sides of the border. A new study just released by the University Of Arizona examined the consequences of shifting migration patterns from California and Texas to Arizona and found it had increased migrants deaths by 20-fold.

The failures of NAFTA to bring prosperity to Mexico are well documented. It's moved 19 million more Mexicans into poverty, forced more than a million small farmers off the land due to the lifting of restrictions on cheaper US subsidized agricultural products, lowered real wages, and in the end forced "millions …to abandon their native homelands. Entire indigenous nations -- the Zapotecs, the Mixtecs, the Tzotzil Maya -- have moved by the tens of thousands, creating the largest migration of Native American peoples in North America since the Trail of Tears in the late 19th century."

While trade policies have brought suffering to the poor of Mexico, border policies have brought death.

Migrant Deaths Increase

Since 1994, between 2000 and 3000 migrants have died trying to cross the inhospitable regions left unsecured after numerous security measures like "Operation Hold the Line", "Operation Safeguard", and "Operation Gatekeeper" were put in place - 1000 of those in Arizona.

A study just released by the Binational Migration Institute (BMI) of the University of Arizona’s Mexican American Studies and Research Center looks at the effects of the "funneling effect" by compiling data on those who perished trying to cross the Arizona desert in the Tucson Sector.

A national border enforcement strategy that funneled illegal immigrants through Southern Arizona from Texas and California led to a dramatic increase in illegal-entrant deaths in Southern Arizona, according to a University of Arizona study released Wednesday.

The study by the Binational Migration Institute — paid for by in part by the Pima County Board of Supervisors — is not the first to reach that conclusion. Last year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that Arizona accounted for at least 78 percent of the increased Southwestern border deaths between 1990 and 2003.

But the UA study is the most detailed examination of known border deaths in Southern Arizona to date, said Melissa McCormick, a senior research specialist with the institute, which studies issues related to human rights and immigration as part of the university's Mexican American Studies and Research Center.

Among the unusual aspects of this latest study is that it is based on a detailed examination of more than 900 autopsy reports from the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office from 1990 to 2005. Previous studies had based their research on vital statistics from death certificates, which don't account for all illegal-entrant deaths since unidentified deaths are assumed to be U.S. citizens, McCormick said.

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(BMI) has undertaken a unique and scientifically rigorous study of all unauthorized border-crosser (UBC) deaths examined by the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office (PCMEO) from 1990-2005

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Because the PCMEO has handled approximately 90 percent of all UBC recovered bodies in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, an analysis of such deaths serves as an accurate reflection of the major characteristics of all known unauthorized border-crosser deaths that have occurred in this sector since 1990.

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The BMI study was designed specifically to measure this “funnel effect” created by U.S. immigration-control policies. The BMI study found that there has been an exponential increase in the number of UBC recovered bodies handled by the PCMEO from 1990 to 2005.

BMI’s findings unambiguously confirm previous evidence that U.S. border-enforcement policies did create the funnel effect and that it is indeed the primary structural cause of death for thousands of unauthorized men, women, and children from Mexico, Central America, and South America who have tried to enter the United States. During the “pre-funnel effect” years (1990-1999), the PCMEO handled, on average, approximately 14 UBC recovered bodies per year. In stark contrast, during the funnel effect years (2000-2005), on average, 160 UBC recovered bodies were sent to the PCMEO each year. Over 80 percent of the unauthorized border-crosser bodies handled by the PCMEO have been under the age of 40, and there is a discernable, upward trend in the number of dead youth under the age of 18. There also has been a statistically significant decrease in the number of recovered bodies of unauthorized border-crossers from northern Mexico and a significant increase in the number of such decedents from central and southern Mexico.

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Yet, despite the obvious failures of these two policies, policymakers insist on using them as a model for future programs. NAFTA has been replicated in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) passed by Congress in 2005 and similar trade agreements with Panama, Columbia and Peru, based on the NAFTA model are now pending in Congress.

As for relying on increased border security measures as a deterrent to unauthorized migration – it's become the cornerstone of Republican immigration reform policy.


The Human Cost

Lost in all the discussion of "unauthorized border crossers" and the death in the desert are the stories of those who never completed their journeys only to become statistics in any of the myriad of studies and reports on the topic.

For instance there is the story of Antonio Torres Jimenez, a long-time Tucson resident, whose body was found in the desert in May of 2006:

Antonio Torres Jimenez perished while coming back into Tucson from Mexico. After the Border Patrol ended their search, Torres’ friends continued to look for him (24 people fanned out across the desert to find their friend). They found him in less than 24 hours

The reason Torres went back and forth across the border illegally?

“A couple of years after Torres earned permanent residency, his eldest daughter died in Mexico…. Torres returned to La Loma [Mexico] to be with his wife and remaining children. When he came back to his construction job in Tucson, he learned that he’d violated the terms of his green card because he stayed in Mexico too long. He lost his legal status…. With few jobs back home, Torres continued living and working in Tucson. Torres’ wife and children stayed behind and he would travel to see them” (LoMonaco 6/3/06).

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Or the story of Lucrecia Dominguez Luna:

Fifteen-year-old Jesus Abran Buenrostro Dominguez memorized the silhouette of Baboquivari Peak as his mother lay dying on the desert floor.

If he could remember where they were, maybe he could get help. His mother, 35-year-old Lecrecia Luna Dominguez, died before he had the chance.

Now all he wants is the chance to find her body and bring her home.

Home is the small village of San Martin Sombrerete in Zacatecas. Jesus' father works in Texas, and it was hoped the family could reunite. They crossed with Jesus' 7-year-old sister Nora. When Luna Dominguez fell ill on the third day of the journey, the group of village friends they were traveling with continued on with Nora. Jesus stayed behind to be with his mother.

"She kept begging me to go on without her, but I couldn't leave her," Jesus said.

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When she lost consciousness, Jesus struck out alone to try to find emergency help. Three days later, Border Patrol agents found him lost, wandering and disoriented in the desert. Although Jesus was dehydrated, in shock, suffering from heat exhaustion and terrified about his mother's status, the agents gave him a little water and then left him at the federal line in Nogales, a practice known as "expedited removal." Once there, Jesus placed a frantic call to his grandfather for help.

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Cesario Dominguez, Lucrecia’s father, spent weeks searching the Altar Valley for her remains. The humanitarian-aid group No More Deaths assisted him; Border Patrol officials helped for only one day. Miraculously, Cesario eventually came upon his daughter’s skeletal remains, recognizing her three rings. “What was left was that hand with those rings, there in the sand,” said her father.

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These stories and thousands more just like them are the reality behind the statistics. Lucrecia Dominguez Luna is but one of the women whose death accounts for the two-thirds increase in female migrant deaths in recent years. She is one of the 61% of all migrants who die of exposure; up from 39% from the period before the funnel policies went into effect. … But she was also someone's wife, daughter, and mother. How did Lucrecia's last moments pass?

Luis Urrea in his book Devil’s Highway describes what death from “exposure” really entails:

Your heart pumps harder and harder to get fluid and oxygen to your organs. Empty vessels within you collapse. Your sweat runs out....Your temperature redlines ---you hit 105, 106, 108 degrees. Your body panics and dilated all blood capillaries near the surface, hoping to flood your skin with blood to cool it off. You blush. Your eyes turn red: blood vessels burst, and later, the tissue of the whites literally cooks until it goes pink, then a well-done crimson. Your skin gets terribly sensitive. It hurts, it burns. Your nerves flame. Your blood heats under your skin. Clothing feels like sandpaper. Some walkers at this point strip nude. Originally, BORSTAR rescuers thought this stripping was a delirious panic, an attempt to cool off at the last minute. But often, the clothing was eerily neat, carefully folded and left in nice little piles beside the corpses. They realized the walkers couldn't stand their nerve endings being chafed by their clothes.

Once they're naked, they're surely hallucinating. They dig burrows in the soil, apparently thinking they'll escape the sun. Once underground, of course, they bake like a pig at a luau. Some dive into sand, thinking it's water, and they swim in it until they pass out. They choke to death, their throats filled with rocks and dirt. Cutters can only assume they think they're drinking water. Your muscles, lacking water, feed on themselves. They break down and start to rot. Once rotting in you, they dump rafts of dying cells into your already sludgy bloodstream. Proteins are peeling off your dying muscles. Chunks of cooked meat are falling out of your organs, to clog your other organs. They system closes down in a series. Your kidneys, your bladder, your heart. They jam shut. Stop. Your brains sparks. Out. You're gone. [3]

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As policymakers in Washington mull over the newest proposals for increasing foreign markets for US products, discuss the merits of the global economy and the free movement of capital, or the need to build more walls and barriers along the southern border to prevent the flow of the economic migrants caused by these policies ….do they think of Antonio Torres Jimenez or Lucrecia Dominguez Luna dying terrible deaths in the desert? Do they think of the thousands of others who have come before them or the thousands more to come in the future?

We will never know the stories behind each an every one of the 3000 migrant deaths that have occurred along the border. No one will tell us about their individual decisions to make the arduous journey, or the grief of family and friends when they didn't survive. In fact, for many migrants, the details of their deaths will always remain nameless, faceless statistics.

But thanks to the work done by the University of Arizona we can at least attach names to roughly one thousand of those who never completed the journey to el Norte.

Perhaps they should be read aloud in the halls of Congress each time a new trade or immigration policy is debated ….maybe then policymakers might think about the human cost of their actions.

**WARNING WHAT FOLLOWS CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF MIGRANT DEATHS…NOT SUITABLE FOR ALL READERS**

Deceased Unauthorized Border Crossers
Processed & Identified by the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office, 1990-2005

(A “Doe” designation following a name means that the decedent was initially unidentified)

1990
Date Found Name Age
5/1/1990 Martinez, Carlos 52
5/7/1990 Carrillo, Miguel Angel/ Doe #20 29
6/71990 Guerrero-Chavez, Juan/ Doe #31 30
7/7/1990 Cardena, Luis Gonzalez 40
7/21/1990 Ortiz, Ruben Corona UNKNOWN
10/18/1990 Coronel-Zazueta, Jose 26

1991
Date Found Name Age
7/15/1991 Hernandez-Morales/ Doe #43 52
8/16/1991 Martinez, Juan C. UNKNOWN

1992
Date Found Name Age
7/2/1992 De Leon, Faustino N. Gomez 17
11/14/1992 Zavala, Raul Reyes 29

1993
Date Found Name Age
1/12/1993 Lopez-Ibarra, Juan Andres 33
6/18/1993 Ayala-Ventura, Juana Elena 25
8/2/1993 Hernandez, Odilon Lopez/ Doe #34 22
8/5/1993 Perez, Adan Rublero 31
10/14/1993 Cardoza-Lopez, Jesus Antonio UNKNOWN
11/19/1993 Rodriguez-Ramirez, Jesus Eberto 18
11/26/1993 Salcido, Gilberto Urquijo 19
12/2/1993 Rodriguez, Antonio Infante 23

1994
Date Found Name Age
7/26/1994 Martinez-Garcia, Alfonso 44

1995
Date Found Name Age
1/17/1995 Alvarez-Guadarrama, Rodolfo 48
3/9/1995 Lugo-Castro, Luis Enrique 24
5/20/1995 Martinez-Ibarra, Alejandro 27
11/4/1995 Alvarez-Salcedo, Rafaeal 38
12/21/1995 Cortez, Carmen Aguilar 45

1996
Date Found Name Age
2/9/1996 Padilla-Ortiz, Jose Humberto 59
6/15/1996 Olivas-Cebreros,Gonzalo 34
6/15/1996 Olivas-Cebreros, Arcenio 29
6/15/1996 Soto-Munoz, Antonio 20
6/16/1996 Guicho-Almeida, Sergio 31
6/16/1996 Mazoraqui-Lopez, Jose 32
6/21/1996 RAMIREZ-TAPIA, DAVID 27
6/25/1996 Cardenas-Salazar, Jesus 35
7/3/1996 Montero-Torres, Enrique 19
10/18/1996 Acosta-Franco, Jorge Arturo 27

1997
Date Found Name Age
3/4/1997 Celso Mendoza Rodriguez 32
3/19/1997 Melvin Osorio 21
3/20/1997 Isaias Marcilino Ordones-Vasquez 24
3/24/1997 Juan Jose UNKNOWN
3/27/1997 Pedro Sandoval Estrada 32
7/1/1997 Roberto Urbano Torres 54
7/11/1997 Jose Nava UNKNOWN
8/17/1997 Paola N Salazar 12
8/17/1997 Antonia C Garcia 35
8/17/1997 Nadia Ahumada 12
8/17/1997 Everardo G Ahumada 10
8/17/1997 Marcela G. Mendez 23
9/21/1997 Jose Luis Cano-Velasquez 36
9/21/1997 Juan Robles-Palencia 25
9/21/1997 Teresa Arreola Raya 28
12/14/1997 Oscar Pena Moreno 32

1998
Date Found Name Age
5/3/1998 Joel Orlando Ibarra Lugo 21
6/28/1998 Rosa Cardenas 23
7/13/1998 Juvenal Silva-Ramirez UNKNOWN
7/14/1998 Rene Hernandez 18
7/25/1998 Sonja Soto-Escalante 17
7/28/1998 Ana Claudia Villa Herrera 17
7/29/1998 Miguel Angel Vasquez Godinez 23
8/20/1998 Elidia Martinez-Macario 27
8/23/1998 Rolando Morales Solano 28
9/2/1998 Arturo Acosta Soto 27
9/9/1998 Antonio Renteria Martinez 26
9/20/1998 Jose Martin Molina Panuco 23

1999
Date Found Name Age
2/14/1999 Telesforo 42
4/4/1999 Hector Lopez Carrizoza 30
4/5/1999 Cesar Ramos Fernandez 44
5/15/1999 Martin Ortega-Campos 33
6/15/1999 Ramon J Gonzalez Salazar 51
6/17/1999 Cuahtemoc Lavin Valentin 45
6/17/1999 Hector Lavin Martinez 25
6/24/1999 Jose Guadalupe Llaninto-Villalobobs 35
7/4/1999 Aaron Moises Delgado Lopez 18
7/7/1999 Alejandro Felix Barraza 19
7/21/1999 Roberto Ramirez-Ramirez 47
7/24/1999 Manuel Artalejo 19
8/1/1999 Carmen Margarita Martinez 19
9/19/1999 Veronica Nadia Lopez Munoz 21
10/26/1999 Olivio Claudio Velazquez-Perez 53
11/11/1999 Modesto Santos-Flores 20
11/23/1999 David Maldonado Quijada 29




2000
Date Found Name Age
1/22/2000 Tomas Mateo Nicolas 17
2/5/2000 Maria Del Rocio Candia-Bravo UNKNOWN
2/5/2000 Natali Enriquez-Hipolito UNKNOWN
2/5/2000 Luis Roberto Morales Avenado UNKNOWN
2/5/2000 Emma Montecarlo Castillo 40
2/14/2000 Isidro Digno Gamez 40
2/29/2000 Delia Moreno Perez 24
3/6/2000 Vicente Gonzalez-Ramirez 46
3/6/2000 Alfredo Uvieta Dominguez 34
3/7/2000 Jose Ines Diaz Gonzalez 18
3/20/2000 Gerardo Nevarez Gallegos 26
3/23/2000 Jose Luis Rojas Inigo 30
3/30/2000 Carlos Miguel Gonzalez Corona 17
4/5/2000 Angel Selvas Ruiz 34
4/14/2000 Zenon Resendiz Nieto 27
4/16/2000 Herlindo Martinez-De Jesus 28
4/27/2000 Eusebio Garcia-Perez 33
5/9/2000 Marina Montano Mercado 26
5/18/2000 Jose Angel Adrian Mendoza Mendoza 40
5/21/2000 Hector Guadalupe Sanchez-Murrieta 22
5/23/2000 Fermin Aguilar Rabadan 34
5/29/2000 Yolanda Gonzalez Galindo 19
5/30/2000 Maria Cruz-Ruiz 45
5/30/2000 Maura Zacarias Sanchez 31
5/31/2000 Juana Medina Butanda 41
5/31/2000 Juan Manuel Acosta Rojas 28
6/1/2000 Enrique Soto Pacheco 19
6/3/2000 Oscar Cervantes-Melquiadez 19
6/3/2000 Froylan Flores-Hernandez 32
6/3/2000 Hugo Sanchez Acevedo 18
6/5/2000 Jose Guadalupe Rico-Sanchez 35
6/5/2000 Guillermina Herrera Guzman 26
6/6/2000 Mainor Gerardo 23
6/7/2000 Enedina Torralba-Martinez 26
6/14/2000 Mario Calderon Jimenez 10
6/14/2000 Eutiquio Dorentes Marin 45
6/15/2000 Laura Vargas Ortiz 22
6/19/2000 Pedro Basulto Neri 20
6/26/2000 Jose Manuel Leos 36
6/28/2000 Antonia Mendez Mendez 16
7/7/2000 Modesta Perez-Pacheco 45
7/24/2000 Victor Manuel Blas-Vargas 29
7/24/2000 Mauro Garcia Martinez 31
7/27/2000 Raul Lopez-Sachez 25
8/9/2000 Demetrio Velez Garcia 25
8/15/2000 Amador Cazares-Sanchez 22
8/23/2000 Miguel Angel Chiguil-Arres. 14
8/29/2000 Rigoberto Alvarado Garcia 24
8/29/2000 Omar Alfredo Cerna-Giraldo 20
8/29/2000 Herlinda Infantes-Mejia 28
9/3/2000 Paula Isela Romero-Palacios 23
9/5/2000 Isaura Bibiana Medina Paredes 25
9/12/2000 Fortino Herrera-Gervasio 24
9/12/2000 Juventino Merida-Fuentes 52
9/21/2000 Norma Leticia Herrera-Navarro 21
9/29/2000 Olivia Vallarta-Coronado 32
10/28/2000 Angel Ledesma-Raya 43
10/31/2000 Jose Luis Lopez-Martinez UNKNOWN
11/12/2000 Juan Pinacho-Rodriguez 26

2001
Date Found Name Age
5/9/2001 Fernando Cruz-Mendoza-Cruz 31
5/17/2001 Alicia Adela Sotelo-Mendoza 46
5/23/2001 Felipe Sanchez-Najera 53
5/24/2001 Lorenzo Hernandez-Ortiz 34
5/24/2001 Raymundo Barreda-Landa 15
5/24/2001 Reyno Bartolo-Fernandez 37
5/24/2001 Mario Castillo-Fernandez 25
5/24/2001 Enrique Landeros-Garcia 30
5/24/2001 Raymundo Barreda-Maruri 54
5/24/2001 Julian Ambros-Malaga 24
5/24/2001 Alejandro Marin-Claudio 28
5/24/2001 Arnulfo Flores-Badillo 42
5/24/2001 Edgar Adrian Martinez-Colorado 23
5/24/2001 Sergio Ruiz-Marin 23
5/24/2001 Efrain Gonzalez-Manzano 24
5/24/2001 Heriberto Badillo-Tapia 18
6/1/2001 Daniel Beltran-Rojas 24
6/1/2001 Armando Rosales-Pacheco 25
6/3/2001 Buenaventura Ayala-Zamora 45
6/8/2001 Roberto Bautista Lopez 19
6/11/2001 Anastacio Lopez-Guerrero 38
6/16/2001 Martin Espinoza-Cruz 40
6/18/2001 Adela Salas-Perez 30
6/19/2001 Guadalupe Octaviano-Nieto 21
6/20/2001 Enrique Mendoza-Castillo 42
6/22/2001 Rosario Sanchez-Rogel 45
6/25/2001 Lauro Barrio-Dominguez 23
6/26/2001 Jose Romero-Luna 43
6/30/2001 Maria Dolores Espinoza-Morales 31
7/2/2001 Alvaro Segovia-Garcia 22
7/2/2001 Julio Cesar Garcia-Soto 23
7/2/2001 Francisco Carreles-Camacho 26
7/2/2001 Alejandro Gutierrez-Hernandez 46
7/7/2001 Alberto Maldonado-Viveros 30
7/11/2001 Esteban Duran-Aburto 31
7/12/2001 Carlos Armando Bustamonte-Garcian 22
7/13/2001 Jorge Alonso Mirelles 24
7/14/2001 Juana Martinez-Miranda 26
7/15/2001 Andrea Alcantar-Cruz 24
7/20/2001 Abel Gonzalez-Dominguez 34
7/24/2001 Hermila Romero-Carreon 29
7/30/2001 Lugarda Iracema Martinez-Jiminez 19
8/1/2001 Petra Veronica Tenorio-Soto 30
8/7/2001 Santiago Pacheco-Ramirez 43
8/22/2001 Dalvin Eugenio Urbina-Kirk 21
8/29/2001 Didier Villanueva-Garcia 27
9/2/2001 Catalina Ventura-Mendoza 43
9/2/2001 Irene Gutierrez-Hernandez 35
9/4/2001 Lizbeth Juarez Riofrio 23
9/11/2001 Mateo Gaspar-Vargas 43
9/21/2001 Lydia Dimas-Tellez 27
9/25/2001 Graciela Alvarado-Hernandez 28
11/5/2001 Heriberto Nunez-Robles 25
11/25/2001 Casimaro Torres 38
11/28/2001 Ernesto A Gutierrez-Ramirez 16
11/28/2001 Jose Garcia 24

2002
Date Found Name Age
1/6/2002 Cesar Leobardo Arguellas-Herrera 30
1/8/2002 Maria Luisa Leticia Lozano-De La Rosa 32
1/27/2002 Tomas Molina-Perez 35
2/18/2002 Martin Martinez-Grijalva 38
2/19/2002 Carlos Garcia-Aguirre 25
2/20/2002 Castulo Salazar-Ontiveros 54
2/24/2002 Domitila Mondragon Alvarado 38
3/11/2002 Miguel Fructuoso-Hernandez 44
3/15/2002 Miguel Ochoa-Gonzalez 39
3/22/2002 Arturo Heras-Espinoza 34
4/7/2002 Jesus Rojas-Villas 35
4/12/2002 Alfonso Hernandez-Hernandez 23
4/12/2002 Victor Diaz-Acevedo 29
4/12/2002 Claudio Martinez-Cortez 34
4/18/2002 Martin Moreno-Montero 45
5/7/2002 Juana Gonzalez 26
5/7/2002 Alonso Caloca-Vargas 27
5/19/2002 Jose Lara-Avila 19
5/22/2002 Simeon Diaz De La Cruz 41
5/28/2002 Rene Resendiz-Rodriguez 26
5/30/2002 Salvador De La Paz Macedo 21
5/31/2002 Francisco Javier Trujillo-Ruiz 18
5/31/2002 Rene Rodriguez-Ramirez 22
6/6/2002 Raul De Anda-Lopez 54
6/6/2002 Norma Rodriguez-Amaro 22
6/7/2002 Margarita Rio-Rodriguez 30
6/7/2002 Jaime Rodriguez Gutierrez 25
6/7/2002 Sofia Rubio-Chavez 19
6/7/2002 Antonio Vargas-Torres 24
6/8/2002 Santiago Arcos-Mota 28
6/8/2002 Jose Manuel Raygoza Gil 14
6/8/2002 Maria Guillermina Sanchez-Salto 30
6/8/2002 Alex Sosa-Coba 24
6/8/2002 Paula Hernandez-Tapia 31
6/8/2002 Rogelio Cruz-Cervantes 52
6/9/2002 Arturo Luciano Gomez-Castro 27
6/9/2002 Ricardo Pantaleon-Santiago 18
6/9/2002 Victor Galindo Torres 21
6/10/2002 Luis Fernando Us Tun 18
6/13/2002 Margarito Escoricia-Franco 26
6/14/2002 Arturo Ruiz-Gutierrez 23
6/14/2002 Maria Elena Lopez-Gomez 17
6/16/2002 Adilene Lopez-Moreno 11
6/17/2002 Rafaeal Lopez-Mendez 19
6/18/2002 Santos Fabian Gonzalez-Paredes 21
6/19/2002 Eva Hernandez-Escarcega 31
6/19/2002 Angeles Contreras-Gonzalez 22
6/23/2002 Carlos Valdez-Gortari 46
6/22/2002 Jose Luis Hernandez-Aguirre 25
6/23/2002 Jose Mendez-Gomez 26
6/23/2002 Saul Segura Oliveros 21
6/24/2002 Domingo Lopez-Lopez 20
6/26/2002 Gonzalo Gonzalez-Saldana 34
6/28/2002 Blanca Estela Garcia-Reyes 36
6/29/2002 Ramiro Garcia-Abarca 18
6/29/2002 Mauro Santos-Tolentino 55
7/3/2002 Jose Salazar-Velarde 46
7/3/2002 Blanca Reyna Salinas-Espinoza 23
7/5/2002 Ruben Gonzalez-Miranda 49
7/5/2002 Jesus Torres Santiago 20
7/5/2002 Alejandro Hernandez-Badillo 16
7/9/2002 Cristina Dominguez-Librado 35
7/9/2002 Maximo Barrera-Esquivel 35
7/11/2002 Leonel Tuxpan-Grano 33
7/12/2002 Francisco Javier Roman Olivan 18
7/12/2002 Raul Estrada-Frias 26
7/13/2002 Joel Aguila Hernandez 28
7/14/2002 Ismael Tepox-Gamboa 35
7/14/2002 Eledi Sanchez-Cirilo 41
7/18/2002 Maria Dolores Moreno-Trejo 10
7/18/2002 Dolores Trejo-Ramirez 53
7/21/2002 Alberico Cordova-Robledo 43
7/21/2002 Oscar Irineo-Santillan 18
7/21/2002 Maria De Jesus Ruiz Garcia 31
7/22/2002 Jesus Balandran-Hernandez 43
7/27/2002 Damaso Rosales-Zamudio 27
8/4/2002 Juan Manuel Dominguez Quintero 33
8/8/2002 Jorge Antonio Yin-Cervantes 28
8/8/2002 Jaime Artega-Alba 22
8/8/2002 Adalberto Lopez-Zuniga 37
8/9/2002 Panfilo Murillo Aguilar 28
8/10/2002 Mirabel Munoz-Bustos 22
8/10/2002 Claudia Patricia Oqunendo-Bedoya 40
8/10/2002 Elizabeth Hahuatzi Martinez 36
8/11/2002 Roberto Rodriguez-Rodriguez 14
8/11/2002 Francisco Tovar-Frausto 41
8/11/2002 Mari Carmen Serapio-Xaltenco 19
8/14/2002 Alejandrina De La Soledad Felix Sanchez 23
8/15/2002 Leandro Bautista Alba 58
8/15/2002 Enriqueta Martinez-Velasquez 46
8/16/2002 Jose Alonso Pulido 43
8/17/2002 Juana Santa Cruz Garcia 34
8/17/2002 Conrado Negrete-Venegas 39
8/26/2002 Eugenio Reyes-Gonzalez, Doe 94 48
8/27/2002 Alfredo Escobar-Lopez 37
8/28/2002 Alma Del Cruz-Lopez 25
8/31/2002 Jesus Humberto Ballesteros-Ortiz, Doe 98 17
8/31/2002 Pablo Hernandez-Espinoza 27
8/31/2002 Hipolito Hernandez Santiago 38
9/1/2002 Luis Bernardo Rodriguez-Tuyub 15
9/3/2002 Gilberto Menendez Gutierrez 33
9/4/2002 Alfaro Marquez-Campos 22
9/4/2002 Cecilio Cabrera-Pedro 37
9/5/2002 Maria De La Cruz Magana-Hernandez 20
9/5/2002 Maria Elena Morales-Sierra 45
9/5/2002 Jose Carlos Wicab-Chable 15
9/5/2002 Omar Sanchez Guevara 26
9/6/2002 Raquel Diaz Sarabia 34
9/9/2002 Jose Luis Rodriguez-Coronel 42
9/9/2002 Victor Manuel Talavera Figueroa 27
9/14/2002 Victor Hugo Davila-Ehuan 24
9/14/2002 Juan Rodriguez Sanchez 24
9/16/2002 Franklin Silva 30
9/16/2002 Jose Luis Vergara Flores 38
9/20/2002 Abel Martinez Faustino 17
10/11/2002 Carlos Garcia Bravo 18
10/16/2002 Jose Guadalupe Juarez Lopez 40
10/25/2002 Armando Saldivar-Flores 39
12/4/2002 Alejandro Lopez Lopez 48
12/25/2002 Rosa Mercedes Cano Dominguez 31

2003
Date Found Name Age
1/4/2003 Oscar Borbon Mendoza 34
1/25/2003 Jose Antonio Perez Rubio 16
2/11/2003 Felipe Antonio Villafana-Rosario 33
2/11/2003 Ricardo Ibarra Tellez 43
2/11/2003 Elia Perez-Ramiez 38
2/11/2003 Reyna Mercedes Peguero Sanchez 30
2/11/2003 Amalia Ortiz-Licona 22
2/14/2003 Cesario Ruiz-Cortez 54
2/15/2003 Gonzalo Gomez-Gomez 42
4/3/2003 Celso Villa Mexico 18
4/13/2003 Antonio Mora Martinez 38
4/26/2003 Pedro Bautista Stillborn
4/22/2003 Juan Jeronimo Altamirano 33
4/25/2003 Mariano Duran-Saucedo 40
5/1/2003 Gabriel Torres-Alcala 47
5/3/2003 Octavio Lopez Felix 24
5/17/2003 Jose Lopez Cardenas 35
5/21/2003 Jose Andres Aguayo Contreras 30
5/22/2003 Jose Luis Rodriguez Tavarez 38
5/23/2003 Jose Refugio Del Angel Ferral 42
5/23/2003 Francisco Chavez-Mojica 40
5/24/2003 Fidel Velasquez Perez 17
5/24/2003 Josefina Martinez Sanchez 40
5/25/2003 Jose Avila 64
5/27/2003 Martin Gallegos Perez 28
5/27/2003 Guillermo Federico Sanchez-Lomeli 27
5/29/2003 Luis Miguel Villa Castillo 20
5/29/2003 Jose Ignacio Sanchez Chaparro 43
5/29/2003 Avelino Andres Cabrera Gonzales 43
5/29/2003 Teresa Velasquez 16
5/29/2003 Jose Alberto Lozano Martinez 31
5/29/2003 Genaro Rosales-Martinez 26
6/1/2003 Matias Juan Garcia Zavaleta 29
6/2/2003 Roberto Torres Ramirez 28
6/3/2003 Rene Olvera-Medina 60
6/8/2003 Mario Gonzalez-Hernandez 45
6/12/2003 Elizabeth Sanchez Acosta 25
6/14/2003 Maria Cristina Hernandez Perez 2
6/14/2003 Clemen Aguilar-Izaguirre 24
6/16/2003 Jorge Aburto-Zamorano 38
6/17/2003 Sergio Mejia Perez 26
6/18/2003 Natividad Carlota De Leon Maldonado 37
6/29/2003 Eliseo Vargas Luna 29
7/1/2003 Keila Madai Velazquez-Gonzalez 15
7/1/2003 Adrian Diaz Dionicio 35
7/2/2003 Isabel Lucrecia Paxtor Morales 22
7/3/2003 Nivercino Rodrigues Da Silva 39
7/3/2003 Antonio Alvarez Solorzano 50
7/4/2003 Pedro Xochicale Tlapalcoyoa 21
7/7/2003 Hermina Fuentes-Sanchez 29
7/8/2003 Maria Florinda Xum Chan 30
7/9/2003 Nora Huertas-Hernandez 19
7/10/2003 Antonio Sanchez Montoya 32
7/12/2003 Antonio Rolon Hernandez 27
7/13/2003 Ermeria Jeanette Martinez Matias 31
7/13/2003 Maria Guadalupe Cayetano Cornelio 19
7/14/2003 Carlos Rojas Morales 24
7/14/2003 Maria De Los Angeles Contreras-Rojas 18
7/15/2003 Maria Guadalupe Vasquez Saavedra 21
7/15/2003 Fortino Vasquez Garcia 41
7/17/2003 Sergio Benitez Hernandez 38
7/16/2003 Esteban Salvador Sanchez Rojas (Doe #73) 29
7/16/2003 Enrique Antonio Lopez Alcantar 18
7/19/2003 Esequiel Vargas Mora 33
7/20/2003 Mauricio Salas Guerra 38
7/21/2003 Agustin Hernandez-Jimenez 23
7/21/2003 Ofelia Maria Garcia Chavaloc 33
7/21/2003 Maria Josefa Tax Hernandez 37
7/21/2003 Amado De Jesus De Jesus 28
7/22/2003 Martin De Jesus Bernabe 19
7/25/2003 Miguel Rodriguez-Marentes 56
8/7/2003 Flora Maria Reyes-Cruz 16
8/9/2003 Alfredo Gundino-Ruiz 22
8/9/2003 Cruz Fabela Munoz 44
8/10/2003 Juan Reyes Luna (Doe #94) 42
8/10/2003 Jose Fernando Martinez-Fuentes 31
8/13/2003 Wilmer Germain Quintanilla 26
8/12/2003 Manuel De Jesus Sanchez 25
8/14/2003 Ilda Roblero Roblero 23
8/15/2003 Juan Antonio Nila Valdivia 20
8/17/2003 Jose Manuel Gomez Cruz 16
8/17/2003 Nicolas De Jesus Garcia Ventura (Doe #103) 55
8/18/2003 Jaime Monroy Gamino (Doe #104) 28
8/18/2003 Victor Manuel Placencia Basilio 27
8/20/2003 Lorenzo Lopez Diaz 21
8/26/2003 Lucio Hernandez-Hernandez 25
8/27/2003 Carlos Ramon Bejarno Cruz 24
8/27/2003 Efrain Castro Ramirez (Doe#109) 50
8/30/2003 Antonio Garcia Gomez 28
8/30/2003 Ruben Garcia Gamino 21
8/30/2003 Miguel Cruz-Laurel (Doe#113) 57
9/1/2003 Miguel Diaz-Garcia 25
9/2/2003 Miguel Ernesto Guardado Flores 19
9/2/2003 Raymundo De Jesus Rodriguez Tobar 33
9/2/2003 Transito Guzman Escobar 35
9/8/2003 Ana Cruz-Garcia 31
9/9/2003 Willian Oswaldo Valle Alfaro (Doe 121) 20
9/13/2003 Juan Carlos Rico Orihuela 19
9/15/2003 Rolando Arce Valenzuela 24
9/18/2003 Nahum Martinez Solano 24
9/20/2003 Rafael Martinez Ruiz 34
9/22/2003 Jorge Rolando Cano Yeh 27
9/23/2003 Rosa Maria Arriaga Castillo 22
10/18/2003 Edgar Miguel Pucek 23
10/21/2003 Hilda Hernandez Baltazar (Doe #35) 38
10/24/2003 Faustino Berneo Rayon 31
10/25/2003 Daniel Haro (Doe 138) 21
11/4/2003 Nicholas Padilla Reyes 20
11/4/2003 Agustin Rita-Santos 40
11/4/2003 Isidro Gutierrez Reyes (Doe #144) 36
11/4/2003 Jose Manuel Alcon Villa (Doe #145) 26
11/24/2003 Valentin Estrada Bejarano (Doe#150) 38
11/30/2003 Andres Campana-Gonzalez (Doe#152) 30
12/1/2003 Altagracia Marbella Tapia-Guillen 21



2004
Date Found Name Age
1/16/2004 Jose Marco Antonio Zavala 27
2/10/2004 Adrian Garnica Altamirano 20
2/10/2004 Eleuterio Guzman Hernandez 43
2/17/2004 Sotero Gomez Viveros 25
2/21/2004 Maria Lucia Martinez-Nava 26
3/2/2004 Carlos Castro Llescas 36
3/2/2004 Rolando Perez Vazquez 37
3/17/2004 Juan Loenel Lizarraga-Vizcarra 27
3/19/2004 Leopoldo Vazquez Hernandez 19
3/20/2004 Jaime Gonzalez Pablo 17
3/21/2004 Gabriel Ortega Flores 27
3/20/2004 Antonio Tirado Rodriguez 43
3/24/2004 Diana Raquel Garcia Velasco 19
3/24/2004 Dagoberto Solis De Coss 36
3/24/2004 Margarito Aguillares Hernandez 26
3/25/2004 Maria Del Carmen Sabino Garcia (Doe #12) 30
3/25/2004 Raul Ramos Chavez 19
4/3/2004 Jesus Esquivel Santiago 26
4/3/2004 Rosario Munoz Berrelleza 36
4/3/2004 Reynael Cortinez Roblero 24
4/4/2004 Fortino Soto Armenta 28
4/4/2004 Rodrigo Miranda Rivera 35
4/9/2004 Norma Moreno Hernandez 30
4/12/2004 Francisco Javier Acosta Sandoval 37
4/20/2004 Tomas Soto Granados 43
4/20/2004 Reyes Campos Zalazar 42
4/20/2004 Carlos Molina Torres 33
4/28/2004 Fidelina Bravo De Marzan 42
5/1/2004 Mario Alberto Rodriguez Perez 25
5/3/2004 Jose Ruiz Bravo 40
5/4/2004 Alvaro Ramos De Castilla 21
5/9/2004 Maria Fabiola Paloma-Rios (Doe 15) 18
5/14/2004 Francisca Alicia Flores Guifarro 42
5/15/2004 Jose Juan Pacheco Salazar 25
5/19/2004 Carlos Caballero Gonzalez (Doe #61) 27
5/22/2004 Santos Martin Perez-Perez (Doe #59) 26
5/22/2004 Carmen Avila Vargas (Doe #17) 22
5/30/2004 Armando Mendoza 27
5/30/2004 Pascual Perez Funez (Doe #62) 38
6/2/2004 Jose Lorenzo Quintanilla 24
6/2/2004 Arnelio Serrano Portillo 39
6/2/2004 Jose Maria Aquino (Doe #65) 21
6/5/2004 Maria Cristina Salinas Gonzalez (Doe #19) 19
6/7/2004 Sofia Beltran Galicia (Doe 20) 21
6/8/2004 Carlos Alberto Argueta Lezma (Doe #71) 42
6/10/2004 Mario Soto Trejo (Doe #72) 30
6/10/2004 Emilio Leon Dominguez 24
6/11/2004 Marcelo Infante Pereyra (Doe #73) 28
6/12/2004 Jose Angel Miranda Escobar 22
6/13/2004 Julian Mayor Arbelaez (Doe #77) 20
6/13/2004 Olivo Martinez- De La Cruz 34
6/15/2004 Rosa Viviana Torres Corona (Doe #22) 26
6/16/2004 Emelia Perez Santiago 45
6/16/2004 Leopoldo Menedz Murrieta 20
6/17/2004 Leodan Vinicio Cabrera Sanchez (Doe #78) 20
6/17/2004 Manuel Luis Ramirez Herrera (Doe #67) 40
6/18/2004 Jaime Roberto Ortega Orellana (Doe #80) 26
6/18/2004 Angel Alberto Lizarraga Prado 26
6/18/2004 Isaac Melo Mejia (Doe #81) 26
6/18/2004 Adalberto Bello Encarnacion (Doe #82) 34
6/21/2004 Jovita Martinez Agudo (Doe #23) 42
6/24/2004 Raquel Hernandez-Cruz (Doe #24) 23
6/24/2004 Isaias Juan Galvez Perez (Doe #84) 28
6/29/2004 Jorge Armando Say-Pacay (Doe #86) 32
7/3/2004 Ismael Gomez Herrera (Doe #87) 22
7/3/2004 Maricruz Farias-Amador (Doe #25) 24
7/3/2004 Blanca Estela Ferreyra Vidal 34
7/7/2004 Paulina Morales-Exiquio (Doe #26) 20
7/7/2004 Nancy Navarrete Hernandez (Doe #27) 26
7/9/2004 Maria De La Luz Florez Martinez (Doe #28) 30
7/9/2004 Librado Tolentino-Velasco (Doe #89) 47
7/9/2004 Mario Alberto Diaz Ponce (Doe #88) 36
7/10/2004 Oscar Belerrabano Hidalgo 26
7/11/2004 Julio Cesar Romero-Espargo (Doe #90) 23
7/12/2004 Marcos De La Cruz Sandoval 18
7/12/2004 Luis Armando Cataldo-Escorza (Doe #92) 21
7/14/2004 Maria Raimunda Ribeiro Silva (Doe #30) 53
7/19/2004 Salvador Andres Gonzalez Leyva (Doe #96) 28
7/20/2004 Sergio Cabrera Hernandez 26
7/22/2004 Ofelia Vicente Ixmai (Doe #33) 28
7/23/2004 Omar Francisco Ortiz Camacho 18
7/26/2004 Jesus Hernandez-Lopez 23
7/26/2004 Aurelio Rios Venegas (Doe #100) 51
7/26/2004 Veronica Duenas Ramirez 33
7/29/2004 Pablo Gerardo Lazaro (Doe #102) 24
7/31/2004 Rosa Pena Ocampo (Doe #37) 38
8/3/2004 Francisco Javier Sanchez Aguilar 31
8/5/2004 Luis Cisneros Ventura (Doe #105) 63
8/7/2004 Albertano Herrera Liborio (Doe #106) 25
8/10/2004 Maria Carina Cortes Portillo 50
8/12/2004 Madilio Gutierrez-Perez 20
8/15/2004 Manuel Batalla Gonzalez (Doe #110) 35
8/20/2004 Gustavo Adolfo Gonzalez Cruz (Doe #112) 17
8/22/2004 Jesus Roman Garcia (Doe 114) 35
8/25/2004 Jose Cruz Adame Zavala (Doe #115) 38
8/29/2004 Aurora Cuamba Magallon 32
8/30/2004 Jose Alfredo Garcia Martinez 31
8/30/2004 Enrique Morales Flores 44
9/1/2004 Pedro Alejandro Valencia Pinedo (Doe #119) 24
9/2/2004 Telesforo Santos Arroyo 38
9/2/2004 Victor Manuel Coyoy Sum (Doe #120) 51
9/5/2004 Olaf Avila Gonzalez (Doe #123) 19
9/7/2004 Leonardo Plata-Escamilla 41
9/8/2004 Jose Trinidad Alcocer Martinez (Doe #124) 37
9/14/2004 Abel Salina Cortes 17
9/14/2004 Humberto Hernandez-Hernandez 35
9/14/2004 Jose Narciso Hernandez-Ledesma 13
9/14/2004 Usterlin Trancito Mazariesgos Vazquez/Doe 125 27
9/15/2004 Dante Roldan Flores (Doe #126) 18
9/25/2004 Casildo Almaraz-Hernandez (Doe #130) 41
9/28/2004 Alejandro Rangel Luna 27
9/28/2004 David Orozco Romo 20
9/28/2004 Miguel Dominguez Juarez 34
10/13/2004 Gregorio Martin Garcia-Cardenas 38
10/23/2004 Felipe Yanez Gonzalez (Doe #146) 15
10/29/2004 Octavio Ortiz Martinez (Doe #153) 44
11/2/2004 Leobardo Contreras Rodriguez (Doe #155) 33
11/12/2004 Emilio Solis Trinidad (Doe #156) 33
11/14/2004 Jose Salomon Guitierrez-Lopez (Doe #159) UNKNOWN
11/26/2004 Miguel Hernandez Hernandez 43
12/2/2004 Maria Varela Dominguez (Doe #48) 41
12/7/2004 Martin Diaz Lopez (Doe #165) 29
12/27/2004 Josefina Jimenez Jeronimo (Doe #51) 42
12/30/2004 Julio César Moreno 55

2005
Date Found Name Age
1/8/2005 Raziel Elhiu Bolanos Sanchez (Doe #4) 23
1/10/2005 Rosendo Martinez Ramirez 34
1/27/2005 Antonia Andrea Moran Aviles 34
1/31/2005 Raul Soto Vidales (Doe #10) 30
2/10/2005 Michelle Acosta Gonzalez 16
2/11/2005 Roberto Viguerillas-Valenzuela 49
2/14/2005 Maurilio Piceno Garcia (Doe #14) 28
2/19/2005 Julio Cesar Yanez Ramirez (Doe #16) 31
2/28/2005 Francisco Chavarria Zamora 47
2/28/2005 Vicente Montes-Medrano 25
3/1/2005 Leonardo Ruiz Bautista 22
3/20/2005 Angel Rafael Calixtro-Celaya 26
3/21/2005 Rolando Estrada Lamas 35
3/23/2005 Rigoberto Cifuentes Arredondo 33
3/27/2005 Abel Matias-Francisco (Doe #26) 25
4/9/2005 Heriberto Echeverria Caballero (Doe # 32) 18
4/11/2005 Jose Antonio Paredes Leon (Doe #35) 46
4/13/2005 Gualberto Felix Caro (Doe #38) 26
4/13/2005 Moises Rojas Laparra (Doe #39) 20
4/14/2005 Estela Tenorio (Doe #7) 21
4/21/2005 Jose O Benavidez (Doe #46) 32
4/22/2005 Isabel Cano Galvez (Doe #8) 17
4/23/2005 Agustin Maldonado Cazarez 21
5/4/2005 Margarita Guerra-Escalera (Doe #9) 42
5/14/2005 Juan De Jesus Rivera Cota 16
5/18/2005 Mario Alberto Esquivel Lopez 21
5/21/2005 Marco Antonio Nunez Tapia 27
5/21/2005 Maria Trinidad Tamal Civil (Doe #10) 42
5/22/2005 Carlos Morales De Jesus (Doe #59) 27
5/22/2005 Luis Arturo Justo Tapia 30
5/23/2005 Dionisio Cristobal Candelario 40
5/23/2005 Melchor Barcenas Mariscal 37
5/23/2005 Jose Ramiro Nicolas Francisco 15
5/24/2005 Eduardo Zamarripa Olivas 35
5/25/2005 Sergio Martinez Ramirez (Doe #63) 37
5/26/2005 Eddie Humberto Villanueva Fuentes (Doe #65) 18
5/26/2005 Pablo Gonzalez-Villanueva (Doe #66) 20
5/27/2005 Patricia Morales Calderon 32
5/28/2005 Fernando Limas Garfias (Doe #68) 31
5/29/2005 Jose Refugio Perez Lopez (Doe #75) 53
5/29/2005 Jose Vizueth Gonzalez (Doe #69) 19
5/29/2005 Oscar Valdovinos Neri (Doe #70) 35
5/30/2005 Jorge Gomez Chacon (Doe #71) 38
5/26/2005 Manuel Perez De La Cruz 18
6/2/2005 Reynaldo Olivares Gonzalez (Doe #74) 45
6/12/2005 Jorge Carballo Orozco (Doe #77) 50
6/17/2005 Jose Luis Zacarias De La Cruz (Doe #81) 31
6/21/2005 Eugenio Rafael Cazares Aguilar (Doe #84) 38
6/22/2005 Jaime Zamora Venegas (Doe 84) 31
6/25/2005 Juan Carlos Rodriguez (Doe 87) 28
6/28/2005 Ruben Trejo Carrera 43
6/29/2005 Alejandro Palomar Campos (Doe #91) 33
6/30/2005 Rusbel Cano Lopez (Doe #92) 28
7/2/2005 Hector Carbajal Martinez 26
7/3/2005 Marco Antonio Gutierrez Roblero (Doe #94) 27
7/4/2005 Laura Rios Garcia 19
7/4/2005 Beatriz Adriana Sanchez Salazar 26
7/5/2005 Luis Miguel Morales Hernandez 24
7/6/2005 Natalia Noclas Martinez 21
7/7/2005 Julio Cesar Garcia-Ralda (Doe #96) 21
7/7/2005 Luz Maria Galindo Castrejon (Doe #17) 32
7/7/2005 Jose Eusebio Arias Arias 38
7/7/2005 Rene Mejia Andres (Doe #95) 19
7/8/2005 Ana Maria Rojas Fragoso 39
7/7/2005 Jose Gabriel Gaytan Vazquez 20
7/9/2005 Benjamin Melecio Ramirez 48
7/10/2005 Estela Bautista Vasquez 38
7/10/2005 Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Dominguez (Doe #20) 42
7/11/2005 Esteban Salazar Hernandez (Doe #103) 46
7/11/2005 Jesus Hernandez-Hernandez 23
7/12/2005 Lucia Gregorio Maldonado (Doe #22) 33
7/12/2005 Irma Epianio Pasion (Doe #21) 29
7/12/2005 Jorge Javier Roldan 50
7/12/2005 Erica Rojas Garcia 20
7/13/2005 Patricio Perez Perez 32
7/13/2005 Eunice Diaz Velazquez 17
7/13/2005 Edilberta Anzurez Rivera 21
7/13/2005 Delfina Coatl Osorio 23
7/13/2005 Gil Tovilla Morales (Doe #105) 42
7/13/2005 Moises Marquez Flores 39
7/14/2005 Rufina Antonieta Tantas Botiquin (Doe #24) 35
7/15/2005 Alejamdro Hernandez Mata 24
7/15/2005 Juan Pablo Dominguez Borgez (Doe #106) 29
7/15/2005 Maria Rudy Aguilar Santiz 22
7/16/2005 Luis Arturo Martinez Lorenzana 12
7/16/2005 Isidrio Hernandez Navarro (Doe #108) 27
7/17/2005 Josefina Cruz Aguilar (Doe #27) 31
7/17/2005 Martin Resendis Panzo (Doe #116) 24
7/18/2005 Nelson Eduardo Aguistin Raymundo (Doe #111) 15
7/18/2005 Alfanza Delfino Tapia 30
7/18/2005 Yesmin Francisca Diaz Perez 19
7/18/2005 Maria Velasco Bautista 24
7/18/2005 Jose Victor Calderon Morales 32
7/18/2005 Maximino Barriento Carajal (Doe #112) 27
7/19/2005 Rigoberto Garcia Romero 23
7/21/2005 Jose Alfredo Martinez Melendez (Doe #117) 35
7/23/2005 Lucresia Dominguez Luna 35
7/26/2005 Jessica Elizabeth Jimenez 18
7/27/2005 Ernesto Perez Sanchez (Doe #123) 27
7/30/2005 Gerardo Moreno Cisneros 25
7/30/2005 Adan Perez Lopez (Doe #124) 24
7/31/2005 Roberto Ward Valenzuela (Doe #125) 24
7/31/2005 Jose Luis Estrada Morales (Doe #126) 50
7/31/2005 Carlos Armando Pena Cortez 30
8/1/2005 Juan Manuel Echevarria Linarte (Doe #127) 35
8/1/2005 Luis Alberto Juarez Perez (Doe #129) 16
8/1/2005 Juan Perez Santiago (Doe #128) 14
8/12/2005 Justino Menedez Ramos 25
8/16/2005 Jose Guadalupe Navarro Esquivel (Doe #134) 25
8/20/2005 Nicacio Perez Lopez (Doe #140) 43
8/20/2005 Claudeth Dilean Sanchez Urbina (Doe #34) 22
8/21/2005 Pedro Gonzalez Vargas (Doe #138) 46
8/28/2005 Reginaldo Mendoza Perez (Doe #145) 36
9/2/2005 Cristhian Rene Felix Arvallo (Doe #148) 19
9/3/2005 Jose Antonio Hernandez UNKNOWN
9/6/2005 Jaime Vega Torres 54
9/10/2005 Gregorio Mariano Dolores 23
9/11/2005 Fausto Donaciano Bernal Lemus 51
9/11/2005 Martin Martinez Serrano (Doe #153) 29
9/19/2005 Baby Boy Arizaga 0
9/20/2005 Rafael Fidencio-Ortega 36
9/24/2005 Martin Garcia-Garcia 18
9/24/2005 Eduardo Corrales Vega (Doe #161) 18
9/26/2005 Ricardo Vazquez Aguilar (Doe #162) 47
9/26/2005 Luiz Carlos Barbosa (Doe #165) 36
9/30/2005 Eduardo Sanchez Gomez (Doe #159) 17
10/6/2005 Fulgencio Montalvo Mendez 28
10/13/2005 Eusebio Luna Mar (Doe #171) 37
10/18/2005 Raul Torres Flores (Doe #173) 31
11/3/2005 Constantino Vasquez Alvarez (Doe #180) 57
11/19/2005 Francisco Javier Bracamontes 32
11/21/2005 Ruben Garcia Lopez (Doe #191) 27
11/24/2005 Ismael Gamez Diaz (Doe #193) 24
12/1/2005 Jose Manuel Casimiro Juarez 37
12/4/2005 Francisca De La Cruz Lopez (Doe #45) 36
12/20/2005 Ismael R Silerio (Doe #202) 26

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MORE INFORMATION

2006 Report on Migrant Deaths at theU.S.-Mexico Border: El Paso-New Mexico Border Region 2006, BNHR.org

BMI - "The 'Funnel Effect' & Recovering Bodies of Unauthorized Migrants Processed by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2005"

GAO - "Border-Crossing Deaths Have Doubled Since 1995; Border Patrol’s Efforts to Prevent Deaths Have Not Been Fully Evaluated"

HOW YOU CAN HELP

No More Deaths

Humane Borders

Border Action Network

2007 International Conference on the Migrant

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