An Arizona Morgue Grows Crowded
There is an ugly sidelight to the illegal immigrant issue in the southwest. Many of those sneaking into the country die trying. They perish in the desert and in many cases their remains will never be identified.
The rise in deaths comes as Arizona is embroiled in a bitter legal battle over a new law intended to discourage illegal immigrants from settling here by making it a state crime for them to live or seek work.
But the law has not kept the immigrants from trying to cross hundreds of miles of desert on foot in record-breaking heat. The bodies of 57 border crossers have been brought in during July so far, putting it on track to be the worst month for such deaths in the last five years.
