Death's Dry Desert Trail: The Unspoken Consequences of Border Policy The Arizona desert has become a graveyard for migrants seeking refuge in the United States.
Nineteen bodies were recently discovered along the Arizona Mexico border, bringing the total number of migrant deaths this year to 73 – 14 more than at the same time last year.
Experts and advocates point to these numbers as evidence that US policy is ineffective and deadly. The statistics on migrant deaths are stark and underreported.