A Border Patrol agent calls in backup to help remove
the body of 46-year-old Mexican woman found in the desert of Cochise County,
Ariz. Record death tolls have been set in Arizona over the last two years as
undocumented immigrants are forced to trek through forbidding mountains and
deserts, where summer temperatures regularly reach 110 degrees. In the Border
Patrol's Tucson, Ariz., sector, which is largely desert, 139 migrants died in
fiscal year 2003. As recently as 1999, the annual number of deaths for the
sector was 29.
