Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border: Causes, Counts, and What the Future May Hold

Migrant Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border: Causes, Counts, and What the Future May Hold

The Accounting for Migrant Deaths Working Group has a simple but ambitious goal – to ensure an accurate count of migrant deaths along the US-Mexico border and to reunify with their loved ones the remains of persons who died “trying to avoid dying.” The Working Group consists of medicolegal authorities (medical examiners, forensic anthropologists, justices of the peace) and scholars who investigate border-crosser fatalities in US communities. The…