2004: 214

2005: 241
2006: 216
2007: 237
2008: 190
2009: 95*

(The 2009 total includes bodies found from Jan. 1 through Jun. 30, 2009).

With no official record-keeping system, the exact number of illegal entrants who have died along the Arizona stretch of U.S.-Mexican border has never been known. In the summer of 2004, the Arizona Daily Star started compiling border deaths recorded by the Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise and Yuma County medical examiners in an effort to present an accurate tally of the numbers of people who die crossing into the United States illegally through Southern Arizona.

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