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Immigrant Deaths in Arizona Desert Soaring in July
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Posted on 07/17/2010 10:41:58 AM PDT by jessduntno

PHOENIX -- The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies is using a refrigerated truck to store some of them, the chief examiner said Friday.

The bodies of 40 illegal immigrants have been brought to the office of Pima County Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Parks since July 1. At that rate, Parks said the deaths could top the single-month record of 68 in July 2005 since his office began tracking them in 2000.

"Right now, at the halfway point of the month, to have so many is just a very bad sign," he said. "It's definitely on course to perhaps be the deadliest month of all time."

From Jan. 1 to July 15, the office has handled the bodies of 134 illegal immigrants, up from 93 at the same time last year and 102 in 2008. In 2007, when the office recorded the highest annual deaths of illegal immigrants, 140 bodies had been taken there through July 15.

Parks said his office, which handles immigrant bodies from three counties, is currently storing roughly 250 bodies and had to start using a refrigerated truck because of the increase in immigrant deaths this month.

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In her recent remarks (video) to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sec. Napolitano - former governor of Arizona - stated, "Over the past 18 months, this administration has devoted more resources -- including manpower, technology and infrastructure -- to the Southwest border than at any point in America's history."
1 posted on 07/17/2010 10:41:59 AM PDT by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno

I see this is Fox News. The MSM would have including global warming and the Arizona immigration laws as contributing to the deaths.


2 posted on 07/17/2010 10:45:25 AM PDT by nhoward14 (I'm starting The 595 Club... A discount from 700)
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To: jessduntno

As long as the left keeps encouraging them to come, they’ll keep dying.


3 posted on 07/17/2010 10:45:33 AM PDT by rbosque (11 year Freeper! Combat Economist.)
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To: jessduntno

Here’s a suggestion: wait till it’s cooler before risking your life breaking in to our country.


4 posted on 07/17/2010 10:47:28 AM PDT by Magic Fingers
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To: rbosque

The only humane thing to do is to build the wall and put our troops along the border to protect it.


5 posted on 07/17/2010 10:47:57 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: jessduntno
They are all desperate to get here before the immigration reform/amnesty goes in to effect.

I grew up in the Sonoran Desert, and in July, it is uninhabitable for even a short amount of time.

Illegals die in the desert every summer, but the higher numbers of deaths are a result of the mad rush to get here in time for Obama's free ride to citizenship.

6 posted on 07/17/2010 10:48:33 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

True. And the actual implementation of SB 1070 can’t begin soon enough.

Lives will be saved. It’s the humane thing to do.


7 posted on 07/17/2010 10:49:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (PALIN/MCCAIN IN 2012 - barf alert? sarc tag? -- can't decide)
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To: jessduntno

You break the laws you pay the price,I will not shed a tear they are used up on the American victims of this lawless free for all given a wink by Bush and Obama both,Now that said what was GW’s reason for crapping on America? Monetary from the Drug trade?


8 posted on 07/17/2010 10:51:10 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: nhoward14

“I see this is Fox News. The MSM would have including global warming and the Arizona immigration laws as contributing to the deaths.”

Funny...and true enough to make you want to weep...


9 posted on 07/17/2010 10:51:31 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny...its principles are the founding principles." - Levin)
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Immigrant Deaths in Arizona Desert Soaring in July

For the latest in Wilde commentary, click here.

10 posted on 07/17/2010 10:51:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (" 'Bush did it' is not a foreign policy." -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: jessduntno

113 in Yuma when I drove through the other day. Anyone risking crossing that desert in the summer has a death wish...


11 posted on 07/17/2010 10:52:21 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: jessduntno

Soooooooooooooo


12 posted on 07/17/2010 10:53:07 AM PDT by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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To: jessduntno

I don’t like to see anyone die, but if someone chooses to jump off a building, is it my fault when they go splat?

It’s the same thing when people try to enter our nation through the desert. You makes your choices, and you live (or die) by them. I, and my fellow citizens ARE NOT obligated to protect these people.

The inference that it is just so unfair to these people, gauls me to the max.

Quit ignoring our immigration laws, and respect our border.


13 posted on 07/17/2010 10:53:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Latest most accurate Az Poll to date, of 14 likely voters: McCain 137%, Hayworth -37% (+/- 92%))
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To: Semper911

“Illegals die in the desert every summer, but the higher numbers of deaths are a result of the mad rush to get here in time for Obama’s free ride to citizenship..”

...and the fact that the temperature has been in the 114s and higher all week.


14 posted on 07/17/2010 10:57:25 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: jessduntno

*YAWN*


15 posted on 07/17/2010 11:00:07 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: jessduntno

How cruel and inhumane is the Mexican gov’t? They need to put out a new booklet telling their people to ait until Nov to senak in . It is the only moral thing to do.

How long before Calderon blames AZ for not putting up air conditioned way stations?


16 posted on 07/17/2010 11:00:29 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: Cheetahcat
You break the laws you pay the price,I will not shed a tear they are used up on the American victims of this lawless free for all given a wink by Bush and Obama both,Now that said what was GW’s reason for crapping on America? Monetary from the Drug trade?

This time, it really is Bush's fault! Although even Reagan had an amnesty on his watch, back in '86. It was a bad idea then, it's a bad idea now. What we need is another Eisenhower-era "Operation Wetback."

17 posted on 07/17/2010 11:01:37 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: jessduntno

Tucson bishop: Illegal immigrants should learn English, ‘get in the back of the line’



Don't be fooled by the headline.

His statement to the House could be right out of
La Raza or any other open borders crowd.

18 posted on 07/17/2010 11:02:26 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: Beowulf9

10:58 AM. Temp 106 degrees.


19 posted on 07/17/2010 11:02:59 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: Beowulf9; DoughtyOne

10:58 AM. Temp 106 degrees.


20 posted on 07/17/2010 11:03:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our Troops, and vote out the RINOS!)
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