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| Body Count Soars in Southern Arizona |
| 2010-08-25 |
| In 2005, a record 196 bodies were found in Pima County. This year, the death toll could be worse. Already, authorities have recovered the remains of 170 migrants. "We're kind of looking at a record-breaking year this year," Peters said. July was the worst month of this year so far, with 59 people found dead. More than half of them died from heat-related causes. On July 15, the deadliest day of the month, seven bodies were found, among them the remains of Omar Luna Velasquez, 25. The high temperature that day was 108 degrees. To accommodate the bodies in the summer heat, a 50-foot refrigerated trailer truck has been parked in the coroner's receiving area. More than 66 percent of the bodies found this year are still unidentified. Sometimes corpses are reduced to skeletal remains; some are mummified by the sun and shriveled like raisins. Of the seven bodies found July 15, only Luna's could be identified. The Sonora desert is very unforgiving. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #8 This carnage could have been avoided. They could have all stayed home and not broken our laws Actions have consequences - especially stupid ones. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-08-25 15:44 |
| #7 In July and August Tucson (Pima County) is a hellhole. Might as well be walking on the sun. Those who cross at this time must have had fried brains BEFORE they began the trek. BTW, the Arizona |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-08-25 14:36 |
| #6 call me a cold and heartless bastard, but this number is about 200K below optimum if they are foreign nationals attempting entry in violation of US sovereignty and criminal statute. more, and faster please. Maybe that would de-incentivise the hoards that are pouring across the border and damaging this country. |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-08-25 12:59 |
| #5 Ebbang: There's a big difference between being a bleeding heart and throwing a drowning man a life preserver. The ranchers down there don't like dead bodies on their property any more than you would. In summer, water consumption in the southern AZ Sonora can go to 5 gal per man per day, in the shade and doing no work. This is not optional. You do not urinate unless you force yourself. Once you get heat exhaustion, which feels like sea sickness, you are counting minutes until you die. It is unpleasant. Walking a hundred feet feels like miles. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-08-25 12:00 |
| #4 This is why you have the bleeding hearts who set water bottles out for the migrants. It's hard to be hardhearted but that sort of thing only encourages the migrants. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-08-25 11:31 |
| #3 Note to Self: If I have a deader I need to dispose of, dump it in Pima County since they are overloaded with unidentified bodies. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2010-08-25 10:45 |
| #2 If and when we get a government that is really interested in controlling this, they need to make business execs and agents who hire illegals go spend a month or more down there assisting with the clean up. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-08-25 10:37 |
| #1 Illegal immigration is not a problem? BS. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-25 10:14 |