For Eddie on St Patrick's Day

Today will mark the fourth St Patrick's day to pass since I first started writing about immigration reform and migrant rights. And as any blogger who's been doing this for any amount of time can tell you, blog years are like dog years, and over three years in blogtopia can seem like a half a lifetime.

Two years ago, in 2006, this day had brought great promise.

The Kennedy-McCain Bill was making its way through the Senate, and the first wave of the great immigration rallies were but only days away. Millions, including Irish and other immigrants from around the world, would take to the streets and demand meaningful reform.

We all thought change would surely come….yet it hasn't.

I'm not Irish, and don't partake in the revelry that marks the day. It usually passed for me rather uneventfully. But once I started blogging about immigration, in some strange way, it's become a milestone that marks the passage of time.

Somewhere today in the mainstream media, or in the blogosphere, there will be a story about what's become an annual rite of spring that takes place every St Patrick's Day.

At a parade in New York, or Boston, or in the halls of Congress in Washington, some political leader will pose with members of the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform , or some other advocacy group, and make promises they have no intention of keeping.

Donning their best green ties, and an eagerness to pander on the day when "everyone's Irish," even the most ardent anti-immigration hawk will promise to "look into the Irish immigration situation." ... but of course they won't.

So to mark this day I have chosen not to write the obligatory St Patrick's Day "Politicians Promise" post … instead I offer a story first published in the Boston Globe this past January.

I apologize in advance to the gods of fair use, but Eddie Treacy's story is too compelling, and Kevin Cullen's writing too beautiful to chop it up and place it in those little blockquote boxes … so I present it in its entirety:

A Toast to an Irishman

Eddie Treacy lived in the shadows and died in his bed, the covers pulled up, his lungs full of fluid.

He was 33 years old, and there is no other way to say this: He died too young.

He came to Dorchester eight years ago from Athenry, in County Galway, part of what could be the last great wave of the young Irish to come here.

Boston is still Irish enough for a guy like Eddie Treacy to fit in. There's always enough work, and there are Gaelic games in Canton on the weekends and fresh brown bread every day at Greenhills Bakery in Adams Village.

Eddie was a master carpenter and made a decent living. For a young man, he was old school, using a simple tool called a square.

Eddie only needed one measurement for a job. Others would punch away at calculators, but Eddie would do the calculations in his head, and hand off the wood, cut precisely, like a diamond.

After a day's work, Eddie would make his way to the Eire Pub for a few jars. If the stool next to his great pal, Muldoon, was open, he would take it.

"How's Mul?" Eddie would ask.

"How's Eddie?" Muldoon would ask back.

And then they would silently watch the news on the TV set over the head of Martin Nicholson, the barman. With Eddie, there was no need for long yarns or running commentary.

Eddie was a rare Irishman, in that he was a great listener, not a great talker. If he agreed with you, he would nod, almost imperceptibly. If he thought you were full of it, he would raise an eyebrow, a silent indictment.

Like other illegal immigrants, he wanted to legalize his residency. He would have paid anything, done anything. But there was no way.

He thought about going home, as his brother Michael did, not long after Eddie first came here.

But Eddie liked it here, so he stayed on, kept his head down.

He didn't ask for much. Once, he told Muldoon he would be happy if he died in his own bed and they played "The Fields of Athenry" at his funeral. They both laughed, because young men don't think they will ever die.

Eddie died in his own bed. We will never know if it was stubborn pride or a fear of being deported that kept him from going to a hospital to treat the pneumonia that killed him. Maybe he just didn't realize how sick he was.

Gerry Treacy hadn't seen his brother in eight years, and when he finally did, Eddie was lying in a casket inside the Keaney Funeral Home on Dot Ave.

"He was a quiet lad," Gerry Treacy was saying, as he and Michael prepared to bring their brother home. "He liked the simple pleasures."

Brendan McCann, a senior at BC High, stood near the altar and played "The Fields of Athenry" on his fiddle as they wheeled Eddie Treacy's casket down the aisle of St. Brendan's Church.

All around the church, there were images of another carpenter who died at 33, nearly 2,000 years ago, another carpenter who some people dismissed as a criminal.

After Mass, about 200 people posed on the front steps of the church for a photo to send back to Eddie's mother, Ann, so she would know that Eddie mattered here. Many of the young men standing there had given up a day's wages to pay their respects.

Then everybody went to Sonny's, the pub that sponsored the Father Tom Burke hurling teams Eddie played for and managed.

Muldoon raised a glass to his friend.

"We'll never see the likes of him again," he said.

On Monday night, as President Bush told the nation that we need to find "a sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally," Eddie Treacy's body was in the cargo hold of Aer Lingus Flight 132, somewhere over the Atlantic, heading home.

Eddie Treacy was buried today, where he wanted to be, in the fields of Athenry.


Boston Globe, Jan 31, 2008

So to Patrick Joseph Buchanan, William James O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and all the others whose tribal worldviews and reptilian brains have so poisoned this debate with the worst kind of bigotry and divisiveness - I wish you a happy St Patrick's Day.

But, I leave you with this thought as you revel in your immigrant past and enjoy your native foods and rituals:

Immigrants really do come in all colors of the rainbow from the deepest black to the whitest white. And whether it's Eddie Treacy shipped back in a box in the cargo hold of an Aer Lingus flight, or Edith Rodreguez losing her infant son to the desert heat, or Antonio Torres Jimenez perishing as he tried to return to his family, or Jesus Abran Buenrostro frantically trying to lead rescuers to his already dead mother in the Arizona desert …. all their blood is on your hands ... all their suffering should be on your conscience.

So have a happy St Patrick's Day, and as you do, just remember that each and every day, another immigrant dies in the shadows because of you.

Read More...

Summary only...

Controversial video raises questions about border shooting

This summary is not available. Please click here to view the post.

Read More...

Summary only...

Immigration News Roundup: April 2 – April 8

This week brought the formal announcement by Tom Tancrazy that he will in fact make a run for the Republican presidential nomination. ICE released some numbers on the results of "Operation Return to Sender", the nationwide crackdown intended to catch criminal undocumented immigrants. Not surprisingly, over one third of those taken into custody were not intended targets, but rather "collateral arrests" made of those who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Census data revealed that immigration is crucial to maintaining growth in many major
US metropolitan areas.

With this years income tax filing date quickly approaching, tax preparation chains are dealing with record numbers of undocumented immigrants wishing to file tax returns.

A newly released surveillance video of a migrant shooting in Arizona by a Border Patrol Agent casts doubt on the veracity of his account of the incident. It appears that what he claimed was self defense now looks more like an execution style killing.

Lastly, we look at this past weekend's immigration march in LA.

• Tancredo Makes it Official: Announces Presidential Run


• Immigration Raids Yield Thousands of "Collateral Arrests"


• Immigration Crucial to Sustaining Metro Populations


• Undocumented Immigrants File Taxes in Record Numbers


• Video Reveals Details of Migrant Shooting by Border Patrol


• Thousands March in LA for Immigrant Rights

Tancredo Makes it Official: Announces Presidential Run

Citing a tough immigration stance, Tancredo announces presidential bid

Criticizing other GOP candidates as weak in their efforts to stop illegal immigration, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo announced Monday he would seek the Republican presidential nomination.

‘‘The political elite in Washington have chosen to ignore this phenomenon,’’ he said.

Tancredo, a congressman who has gained prominence in recent years for his staunch stance against illegal immigration, said immigration would be the primary focus of his campaign.

He said he would not enter the race if he thought one of the leading candidates was sufficiently conservative on the issue..
Times-Republican

Tancredo campaign: more scare tactics

Call Tom Tancredo the no-chance candidate, a one-trick pony.

While he may not be a real contender, the Colorado congressman has a million dollars and a dream: to push the issue of undocumented immigration to the forefront of the 2008 presidential campaign.

It's the sole reason he's running for prez.

In many ways Tancredo is like Al Sharpton, the Democratic challenger of the '04 race who knew he couldn't win but used his platform to talk in no-nonsense fashion about civil rights issues.

You have to admire someone who is passionate about an issue, even if you disagree with him. But Tancredo borders on the obsessive. It's evident in his actions.

He's hung out along the Mexican border with gun-toting "Minutemen" vigilantes who dress in camouflage and wear night-vision goggles.

At a California rally he held up a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "America is full."

He said Miami, a city that is majority Latino, resembles a "third-world country."

And in South Carolina he didn't mind speaking in a room draped with Confederate battle flags, where men dressed in Confederate regalia sang "Dixie," an offensive song that came out of blackface minstrel shows of the 1850s, mocking freed slaves.

It's understandable why Esquire magazine called him "Tancrazy."
Denver Post

Related:
Candidate Tancredo welcomed times 2, Denver Post

Tancredo joins GOP race on immigration platform, Chicago Tribune


Immigration Raids Yield Thousands of 'Collateral Arrests'

Immigrant crackdown brings 6,696 'collateral arrests'

More than one-third of 18,000 people arrested in a nearly yearlong federal crackdown on illegal immigrants were not the people authorities had targeted, according to government figures.

The so-called collateral arrests involved people picked up by immigration agents seeking fugitives such as drug smugglers, thieves, drunken drivers and others who flouted deportation orders.

When tracking down fugitives, authorities visit a suspect's last known address and often find other immigrants, who are then asked to prove they are legally entitled to live in the United States.

Supporters of such tactics say the government is just doing its job after years of neglect.

...snip…

Critics say the campaign against fugitive illegal immigrants ensnares many hard-working people who are in the country illegally but do not pose a danger.

"They're trying to sell it as something where they target [criminals] but it's become part of a larger dragnet," said Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee's office in San Diego.

Dubbed "Operation Return to Sender," the crackdown began last May in cities nationwide. As of Feb. 23, it had resulted in 18,149 arrests of suspected illegal immigrants, most of whom were captured at home and in Hispanic neighborhoods.

But, according to figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nearly 37 percent of those cases, or 6,696 arrests, were "collateral" captives -- people who just happened to be present when agents arrived. Such arrests account for more than half the total in four cities: Dallas and El Paso, Texas (59 percent); New York (54 percent); and San Diego (57 percent).
San Diego Tribune

Related:
Crackdown on Fugitives Nets Many Arrests, Washington Post

Religious leaders want end to raids' 'collateral arrests', San Diego Union Tribune

Agents step up immigrant searches, San Diego Union Tribune

359 arrested in Calif. immigration sting, Houston Chronicle

Mount Kisco immigration raids are among many across U.S.The Journal News


Immigration Crucial to Sustaining Metro Populations

Census: Immigration Helps Big Metros Grow

Without immigrants pouring into the nation's big metro areas, places such as New York, Los Angeles and Boston would be shrinking as native-born Americans move farther out.

Many smaller areas, including Battle Creek, Mich., Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Ore., would shrink as well, according to population estimates to be released Thursday by the Census Bureau.

"Immigrants are filling the void as domestic migrants are seeking opportunities in other places," said Mark Mather, a demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a private research organization.

Immigrants long have flocked to major metropolitan areas and helped them grow. But increasingly, native-born Americans are moving from those areas and leaving immigrants to provide the only source of growth.

The New York metro area, which includes the suburbs, added 1 million immigrants from 2000 to 2006. Without those immigrants, the region would have lost nearly 600,000 people.

Without immigration, the Los Angeles metro area would have lost more than 200,000, the San Francisco area would have lost 188,000 and the Boston area would have lost 101,000.

The Census Bureau estimates annual population totals as of July 1, using local records of births and deaths, Internal Revenue Service records of people moving within the United States and census statistics on immigrants. The estimates released Thursday were for metropolitan areas, which generally include cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Washington Post

Related:
Census Shows Immigration Helping St. Louis Schools, KSCK News5

Very low growth seen by census, The Republican, MA


Undocumented Immigrants File Taxes in Record Numbers

Even illegal immigrants in U.S. pay taxes

On a recent Sunday afternoon, construction workers, car washers, truck drivers and students crowded into Petra Castillo's one-room tax-preparation office in this city's South Central neighborhood. Most of those inside what was once the home of El Jefe Tacos shared something besides their need to beat this year's April 17 filing deadline: They are illegal immigrants.

…Politicians and activists campaigning for a crackdown on illegal immigration frequently complain that the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented residents violate U.S. law by not paying taxes, as well as by being in the U.S. without permission. But . Castillo's booming business shows how some of the workers who are here in defiance of one arm of the U.S. government - the Department of Homeland Security - are filing federal tax returns with the aggressive encouragement of another - the Internal Revenue Service.

"If someone is working without authorization in this country, he or she is not absolved of tax liability," IRS Commissioner Mark Everson, a former immigration official, said in testimony before Congress last year. Last week, speaking to the National Press Club, he added, "We want your money whether you are here legally or not and whether you earned it legally or not."

In 1996, the IRS created the individual taxpayer identification number, or ITIN, a nine-digit number that starts with "9," for taxpayers who didn't qualify for a Social Security number. Since then, the agency has issued about 11 million of them, and by 2003, the latest year with available figures, the number of tax returns using them had risen to nearly one million. The government doesn't know how many of those taxpayers were undocumented immigrants. Foreign nationals with tax-reporting requirements in the U.S. can also get an ITIN. But most of the people who use the number are believed to be in the U.S. illegally. All told, between 1996 and 2003, the income-tax liability for ITIN filers totaled almost $50 billion.

As part of its outreach effort, the IRS has been helping taxpayers apply for ITINs through partnerships with community groups. Last week, the Center for Economic Progress, a nonprofit group in Chicago, hosted its fourth ITIN event of the tax season at a church on the city's South Side, helping individuals apply for the number and file in one sitting.
Wall Street Journal, via Arizona Republic

Related:

Tax Prep Chains Attract Immigrants , Washington Post

Illegal immigrants filing taxes more than ever, AP


Video Reveals Details of Migrant Shooting by Border Patrol

Video of entrant's killing is released, Blurry tape fails to back account related by agent

Video taken by a surveillance camera of the fatal shooting of an illegal entrant by a Border Patrol agent appears to cast more doubt on the agent's account of the incident.

A copy of the video was released Tuesday by the Cochise County Attorney's Office. This follows Monday's release of a 300-page report on the Jan. 12 shooting.

The video shows from a distance the moments of the fatal shooting of Francisco Javier Domínguez-Rivera by Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett. The incident happened in the afternoon near the border between Douglas and Bisbee.

The blurry digital video shows Corbett getting out of the driver's side of his vehicle and moving around the back before engaging a group of people, Cochise County sheriff's Sgt. Mark Genz wrote in a report given to the county attorney.

"You can see that he is very close to several subjects. It appears that one of the subjects he is near goes down partly, possibly to his knees and then goes down to the ground all the way and you lose sight of him," he wrote.

…snip…

The County Attorney's Office sent the video to the FBI to see if the bureau can enhance the quality of the footage.
Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said he is waiting to review an enhanced version of the video before deciding whether to charge Corbett.

Corbett, 39, didn't speak to investigators during the investigation but reportedly told colleagues he fired a single shot from the front of his vehicle at a man who was at the back of his vehicle who looked like he was going to throw a rock.

An autopsy report and other forensic evidence seem to support the matching account from three witnesses, including the dead man's two brothers, who told investigators the agent fired while pushing Domínguez-Rivera to the ground.

The Cochise County Medical Examiner's Office found that a single bullet entered the left side of Domínguez-Rivera's chest and followed a downward trajectory through his heart and liver before lodging in his abdomen.
The shot was fired from between 3 inches and 2 1/2 feet away, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety lab information included in the report. The bullet casing from Corbett's gun was recovered.
Arizona Star

Related:
Border Patrol agent's account of shooting doesn't match evidence, Scipps

Agent Who Killed Immigrant Back on Duty, San Francisco Chronicle

Records contradict agent's story on entrant's slaying, Arizona Star

Witnesses: Agent shot unarmed man while pushing him to ground, Douglas Daily Dispatch


Thousands March in LA for Immigrant Rights

L.A. pro-immigrant march draws thousands

Thousands of people, many wearing red, marched peacefully Saturday through downtown Los Angeles, calling for broad amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Police estimated that about 7,000 to 10,000 people participated in the march. Two demonstrations two weeks ago, both held to commemorate last year's massive Los Angeles march, were marked by low turnout.

Organizers said Saturday's noontime event, which began at Olympic Boulevard and Broadway and ended at City Hall, was designed to rejuvenate efforts in Washington to promote reform that offers a path to citizenship to the greatest possible number of undocumented immigrants. Such efforts have stalled in Congress.

It was also intended to prove to critics that the immigrant rights movement was not dead, organizers said.

"People would like for it to go away," said Juan Jose Gutierrez of Latino Movement USA, one of the coordinators of the march. Speaking of Congress, he said, "we are not going to go away until they act responsibly.".
LA Times

tags: immigration, Tancredo , DHS raids, Nicholas Corbett, Collateral Arrests,

Read More...

Summary only...

Arizona looks at new warning system for migrants

With the peak season for triple-digit heat and migrant deaths quickly approaching in the Arizona desert, a controversial new program as been proposed by an Arizona doctor to provide a "a probability of death" index for would-be migrants. The new initiative would be similar to other standard weather warnings but would predict the likelihood of death for those migrants attempting to cross the border from Mexico.

State officials plan to roll out Dr. Samuel Keim's prognosticating report stating which days will have the greatest probability of death for migrants before the summer heat peaks.

"By May, we will have an extreme heat warning based upon increasing probabilities that deaths will occur among border crossers," Keim said. "From four consecutive years of data, we have found that as the temperature on a given day reaches 104, the probability of death among the border crossers in [Pima] County reaches 50 percent."

Border deaths--and efforts to alleviate them, such as installing water stations--are fiercely debated in a state that has become the nation's busiest area for smuggling illegal immigrants. Even getting an accurate toll is contentious, as a federal audit recently criticized how the Border Patrol could be undercounting border deaths, which doubled over 10 years to 472 in 2005, mostly in Arizona.
Chicago Tribune

Keim, an associate professor at The University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine, published the first scientific journal article to investigate the public health issue of heat-related deaths among immigrants crossing into Arizona

"Estimating the Incidence of Heat-Related Deaths Among Immigrants in Pima County, Arizona," published in the April, 2006 issue of the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, examined the heat-related deaths recorded by the Pima County Medical Examiner between 1998-2003.

Last month, his findings were confirmed when the Binational Migration Institute (BMI) of the University of Arizona’s Mexican American Studies and Research Center published "The 'Funnel Effect' & Recovering Bodies of Unauthorized Migrants Processed by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2005", a report that examined more than 900 autopsy reports from the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office from 1990 to 2005.

Though some observers wonder whether Keim's chance-of-death forecast plan would dissuade anyone, Keim said the perennial body count has grown to "a public health concern."

"These people are dying on U.S. soil. This is a U.S. issue. It's not a Mexico issue. If 100 people died anywhere in a single county from exposure, I think it would make national news," said Keim, 46, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona.

"Whoever is willing to listen, if the temperature reaches a certain figure, we're going to say that there's this X, Y or Z risk for crossing the border," he added. "We're hoping it will provide a probability of death for the day so that people can say there is a 50-50 probability that at least one or more crossers will die if they cross the border."
Chicago Tribune

Anti-immigrant activists oppose Keim's plan on the grounds that it amounts to "aiding and abetting" illegal activity.

Barbara Coe, an activist who's conducted civilian patrols of the border in Arizona and elsewhere with the Minuteman Project, excoriated Keim's proposal as "criminal."

"That's called aiding and abetting," said Coe, also founder of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform. "Illegal aliens are criminals.

"Nobody wants anybody to die. I can tell you that the blood of these people [is] on the hands of the Mexican government . . . and corrupt U.S. politicians who welcome them to come to our country illegally," she said. "They can save their own lives by staying home."
Chicago Tribune

Other life saving initiatives have been criticized in the past, particularly those of church groups like Humane Borders who put water stations in the desert, with tall flags for easy location and No More Deaths who supply medical aid to migrants injured or suffering from the heat while crossing the Arizona desert.

State and local health officials support Keim's idea, especially as a hotter-than-normal summer is forecast this year. Longtime border area residents know how to avoid triple-digit heat and are more likely to be exposed to a thunderstorm or flood warning than a heat advisory, a Pima County health spokeswoman said. Migrants, however, come from all over Latin America and many may not know how deadly the Sonoran Desert can be, officials said.

…snip…

As the hot season approaches, the Border Patrol is stepping up its year-round Spanish public service announcements in Mexican and U.S. media under a campaign called "No mas cruces en la frontera," which translates to "no more crosses on the border."

"It's a very good idea," Border Patrol senior agent Jim Hawkins of Tucson said of Keim's plan. "I can't endorse what he's doing one way or another. I'm just saying we do the same thing" under the public announcements.
Chicago Tribune

As the season of increased death approaches, the debate over the program is bound to heat up as restrictionists like Coe and her minutemen friends attempt to block any attempt to save lives and prevent suffering in the scorching desert along the southern border.

Related from Migra Matters:
"US border policy increases migrant deaths 20-fold in Arizona desert" Feb 2007

"Border fence boondoggle, it's more than just the cost" Jan 2007

"Walking in the footsteps de los fantasmas" June 2006

"Meet the "most dangerous" people on our southern border" Jan 2006

"A Must Read Story" Jan 2006

tags: immigration, AZ , migrant death, heat index

Read More...

Summary only...

Immigration News Roundup: March 12 – March 18

This week's news was somewhat sparse as the fallout from last weeks raids continued and news of war and scandal dominated the headlines. One ironic story coming out this week revolves the Texas town of Farmers Branch, where the ballots for a May 5th vote on anti-immigration ordinances will be bilingual. In the wake of the New Bedford immigration raid that garnered national attention, the Anti-Defamation League will be stepping up efforts to battle an increase in anti-immigrant bigotry in New England. While on the opposite coast, Washington State saw the first traffic checkpoints set up by the DHS to screen for immigration status. Lastly the LA Times gives us a detailed account of the case of Tyrone Williams, the trucker convicted in the deaths of 19 migrants who died during a smuggling operation turned deadly.

• Farmers Branch to Use Bilingual Ballots for Anti-Immigration Vote


• Anti-Defamation League to Fight Anti-Immigrant Bigotry in Wake of Raids


• DHS Sets Up Traffic Checkpoints in Washington State


• Details of Deadly Journey Revealed

Farmers Branch to Use Bilingual Ballots for Anti-Immigration Vote

Ballots for anti-illegal immigrant ordinance to be bilingual

To comply with state law, ballots and election materials related to an anti-illegal immigrant ordinance going to Farmers Branch voters May 12 will be printed in English and Spanish.

The controversial ordinance would require apartment landlords to check the immigration status of their tenants.

In November, council members also approved resolutions making English the city's official language and allowing local authorities to become part of a federal program so they can enforce immigration laws.

…snip…

Bruce Sherbet, the Dallas County elections administrator, said every election requires ballots in Spanish and English, a requirement since 1975.

Some areas in Texas also have had to print election-related items in Vietnamese, Pueblo and Kickapoo languages, according to the secretary of state's Web site.

Farmers Branch has been sued by civil rights groups, residents, property owners and business people challenging the rental ordinance. Opponents of the ordinance also submitted a petition that forced the citywide vote on the issue, a move allowed under the city's charter.

Farmers Branch in suburban Dallas has changed from a small, predominantly white bedroom community with a declining population in the 1970s to a city of almost 28,000 people, about 37 percent of them Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census. It also is home to more than 80 corporate headquarters and more than 2,600 small and mid-size firms, many of them minority-owned.
Austin American Statesman

Anti-Defamation League to Fight Anti-Immigrant Bigotry in Wake of Raids

For ADL, another mission: Group will combat anti-immigrant bias

The Anti-Defamation League of New England, saying that hostility toward immigrants represents a growing form of intolerance, is making the fight against anti-immigrant sentiment a significant focus of the 60-year-old organization.

Leaders of the ADL, which is known primarily for its efforts to combat anti-Semitism, say they are alarmed at the animus toward immigrants that seems to be surfacing as the debate over securing the country's borders intensifies.

Andrew Tarsy, regional director of the ADL of New England, said recent events in immigrant communities around Boston demonstrate the urgency for more activism.

"We fight against bigotry in all forms," Tarsy said. "It has become clear both in the extremist world and even in the mainstream that the conversation about immigrants is laced with bigotry."

…snip…

Tarsy said there has been an upsurge in anti-immigrant activity nationally among organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. The ADL here received reports in the last week of hate literature about immigrants being distributed in Taunton, Easton, and Brockton by another group, he said.
Boston Globe

Related:
Boston Globe
ADL
Columbia Missourian
EJP


DHS Sets Up Traffic Checkpoints in Washington State

Seven suspected illegal immigrants detained in first-ever U.S. 101 traffic checkpoint on Peninsula
3/16/07

Customs and Border Protection agents on Thursday detained seven people thought to be illegal immigrants at the North Olympic Peninsula's first-ever traffic checkpoint on U.S. Highway 101.

Travelers moving south on the highway between 8 a.m. and noon - including those in a Clallam County Transit bus - were stopped north of Forks and asked if they were citizens and where they were born.

More checkpoints on Highway 101 in Clallam County can be expected in the coming months, said Robert Kohlman, a field operations supervisor in the agency's Blaine office.

The federal agency, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the checkpoint was part of a nationwide terrorism deterring strategy.

"The checkpoints are part of the national border protection strategy," Kohlman said.

The seven who were detained were taken to a federal detention center in Tacoma, where they will await removal proceedings, Kohlman said.

…snip…

City and police officials in Forks were told ahead of time where and when the checkpoint would be, said Nedra Reed, mayor of Forks.

She said she has assured members of her city that the operation was not an immigration action.

"We're 100 miles or so from the Canadian border, and they felt this action was necessary," Reed said.
Penninsula Daily News

Highway checkpoint fallout reaches Rep. Dicks
3/18/03

The first terrorism checkpoint in the Northern Olympic Peninsula has spurred complaints and concerns that are reaching as far as Washington D.C.

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks' office received "a number of complaints and inquiries" Friday from constituents in the Forks area, said an aide to the congressman, D-Belfair.

…snip…

(Dick's spokesman George) Behan said the Congressman "has questioned whether this is the best use of border protection resources."

Behan said Dicks planned to pass along to Customs and Border Protection some of the comments and concerns he has received.

"If there is a specific terrorist threat or legitimate information suggesting terrorist activity, there could be a cause for this type of search," Behan said.

"But Customs and Border Protection staff shouldn't function as immigration enforcement officers," he added.

When the agency was reached after the checkpoint was taken down Thursday, Robert Kohlman, a field operations supervisor in the agency's Blaine office, declined to say whether specific information or threats had prompted the checkpoint.

…Daniel Perez, intake and outreach coordinator, with the Tacoma-based Northwest Immigration Rights Project, said in light of Thursday's action, he plans to visit Forks and help inform the Latino community.

"People are not obligated to answer immigration official's question about status," Perez said.

"People can remain absolutely silent . . . the key is not to engage in any conversation."
Pennisula Daily News

Details of Deadly Journey Revealed

Immigrants' journey took a deadly turn

THEY started leaving the stash houses at twilight, six, seven immigrants at a time, crammed into vans, sport utility vehicles, compact cars. The smugglers dropped them in a field by a Fruit of the Loom plant outside Harlingen, Texas, deep in the Rio Grande Valley, not far from the border

…snip…

Shortly after 10 p.m., a white Freightliner diesel truck, the legend "Wild Child" painted across the cab door, entered the field. The truck was pulling a 48-foot-long trailer equipped with a refrigeration unit — a "refrigerator on wheels" was how the driver described it.

Tyrone Mapletoft Williams, a 32-year-old Jamaican immigrant, routinely hauled fresh milk in this trailer from upstate New York to Texas, often returning with a load of watermelons. On this night, he was engaged in something far more lucrative than a typical milk run.

For a fee of $7,500, he had agreed to carry a load of illegal immigrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint about 45 miles up the highway. After he was underway, however, Williams would be redirected by the smugglers to Houston, a six-hour drive.

…snip…

Williams remained in the cab, engine running. The smuggler who had recruited him — a chubby, ne'er-do-well of the border named Abelardo Flores — told Williams it was best if passengers never got a look at their driver, just in case something went wrong on the road.

Flores positioned himself on the running board beside Williams, giving him the standard instructions: Remain "cool" at the checkpoint. Tell the agent you are running empty. If caught, feign surprise and claim that the people must have sneaked on board, perhaps while you were asleep or inside a truck stop.

One thing Flores did not tell Williams was how many people were being squeezed into his trailer. There were at a minimum 74, and some who boarded put the headcount closer to 100. Still, the loading did not take long, maybe 10 minutes.

…snip…

At first, conditions inside the trailer had seemed "normal," many of the survivors would testify without any apparent sense of irony. Wrapped in almost perfect darkness, they could see nothing. What they experienced were sensations and sounds — the slight swaying of the trailer as it left the field and rolled onto the roadway, the jostling of shoulders and hips, sticky sweat and, within minutes, rising heat.

According to a mathematical model prepared for trial, it took only 10 minutes to reach 100% humidity inside the insulated trailer. Within 35 minutes, the heat surpassed the normal body temperature of 98.6 degrees and continued to climb. This was a critical tipping point. Now body heat generated by the passengers no longer could escape into the trailer's airspace

…snip…

By now, the passengers were stripping off blouses and shirts. Their bodies poured sweat, and the more they perspired, the more they became dehydrated. One man squeezed sweat from his shirt and tried to drink it. The 5-year-old boy was wailing.

…snip…

On the trailer's corrugated metal floor, with his father crouched protectively over him, the boy slipped away. Castro-Reyes heard him cry out one last time.

"Daddy, I am dying."

And then the father screamed, and panic descended into pandemonium. Men and women pounded at the side of the trailer with fists and shoes, shouting huskily that they needed to be let out. Hoping to attract attention, others threw caps, shoes, anything that could fit, through the small holes they'd knocked in the doors after clawing away the insulation. There was fevered talk of rocking the trailer to tip it over.

"People were saying we were going to die anyway," recalled one passenger, "so we should roll it over so they would pay attention to us."

…snip…

NSIDE the trailer, the passengers were hurtling toward death, their bodies battered by heat, dehydration and a shortage of oxygen. In overlapping methods of attack, these three instruments of death would break down the kidneys, lungs, heart and brain. Along the way, they would produce pounding headaches, vomiting, bulging eyes, a maddening shortness of breath and hallucinations.

By now, most of the trailer occupants were too far gone to bang or shout. Some, spent, sunk to their knees in weariness. Others found places in the less-crowded front of the trailer to lie down and await death. Lorenzo Otero-Marquez recalled it felt "fresh" somehow on the floor. He lay in the blackness and listened to others flailing as they died, their bodies convulsed by seizures.

"You could only hear that they were dying," he testified. "They started to strike with their hands louder, and then they stopped striking."

Ana Gladis Marquez-Aguiluz also heard, and felt, these final throes: "They were hitting and some of them were kicking us — strongly, not intentionally."

In the jumble of bodies, the living sometimes became pinned under the dead. The father of the 5-year-old was kneeling over his child when he too passed away.

…snip…

Williams had stopped at a truck stop just south of the town of Victoria, more than halfway from Harlingen to Houston. He parked on a side road, next to a tree-studded horse pasture. Yet another camera captured the trucker's entrance into the store, time-stamped at 1:37 a.m.

…snip…

"We're out of here," he told her.

There was a loud crash as the truck pulled away. Hastily unhooking the trailer, Williams had neglected to crank down the dolly wheels that hold its nose aloft when detached. Back on the highway, they spotted a police car speeding toward the truck stop. Williams called Abel Flores, who, high on cocaine, had just closed down a Harlingen strip joint named Secrets.

…snip…

He turned the truck for Houston, pounding on the steering wheel as he drove. In a few hours, he would check himself into a hospital, complaining of a case of the nerves and telling a story about how a bunch of illegal immigrants somehow had sneaked into his trailer, perhaps while he was asleep or inside a truck stop.

…snip…

As many as 100 people are thought to have boarded the trailer. Police recovered 18 bodies and caught 56 survivors, one of whom died later. Others are thought to have escaped.
LA Times Via KTLA-5

Related:
LA Times

tags: immigration, news , Farmers Branch, ADL

Read More...

Summary only...

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.

Arizona Star

(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

…snip…

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.

…snip…

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.

American Immigration Law Institute

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).

Binational Migration Institute

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.

Tucson Citizen

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.

ePluribus Media

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.

Binational Migration Institute

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]

ePuribus Media

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

BMI

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

tags: immigration, migrant deaths , NAFTA, border security

Read More...

Summary only...