An official estimate puts the quantity of folks that died in illegal crossings throughout the U.S.–Mexican border between 1998 and 2004 at 1,954 (see immigrant deaths alongside the U.S.-Mexico border). Would-be immigrants have been identified to suffocate in delivery containers, boxcars, and vehicles, sink in shipwrecks brought on by unseaworthy vessels, die of dehydration or publicity throughout lengthy...