[NYTr] One Death per Day on US-Mex Border

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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One Death per Day on US-Mex Border

Mexico, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) One person dies every day on the Mexican
northern border while trying to reach the US looking for a job, noted
President of the National Commission of Human Rights Jose Luis
Soberanes.

Soberanes referred to data approved by Washington in which 4,745
Mexican citizens died in that attempt during the last 13 years,
although emigrants' organizations say the number is more like 10,000.

A report of the commission pointed out that many people cross the
border and nobody hears from them again, highlighting that 560 bodies
were found in a deserted cemetery.

To pass the border at present means to life three or four days in
deserted areas, to swim in polluted waters which are potentially mortal
and fight hypothermia and dehydration.

Soberanes also denounced that they are persecuted by US border soldiers
and mentioned cases like the 17-year old Victor Mandujano who they shot
to death and Dario Miranda who was shot 12 times in the back.

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