Illegal Immigration

Although America was made for immigration of different peoples which we have seen from the first landing in Virginia to the influx of Irish and Italians America does not seem as friendly to Hispanics from any states.This could be because of the language ,cultural or educational gap but America is determined to keep them out hence the American-Mexico border and the border petrol's that go on there.I was trying to find out if there was any way to find out in a year how many illegal immigrants died trying to cross the border but I couldn't find any hard statistics.

I did find these pictures showing a dead dehydrated Mexican man and the border fence.
I also found this small article by Alan Wall explaining approx how many border crossing deaths there are.

The U.S.-Mexico border is a killing field. The Border Patrol reports that, in the past seven years, 2, 994 (at last count) illegal border crossers have perished on the border. About a third of them (1,133) died crossing into Arizona.

According to the New York Times, which ran a recent article on border deaths,

"Pima County, which includes the Tucson area, is one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings along the 2,000-mile border. The medical examiner’s office handled 177 deaths of border crossers in the first eight months of this year, compared with 139 over the same period last year and 157 in 2005, the year the most such deaths were registered." [At the U.S. Border, the Desert Takes a Rising Toll, By Randal C. Archibold, New York Times, September 15, 2007