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  • Anthropologist is seeing a higher number of bodies found in desert

    By Published On: July 1, 2010

    Every year for the past decade, more than 200 suspected illegal immigrants have died crossing the U.S.-Mexican border into Arizona. That's roughly half of all such immigrants who die in the U.S., according to the U.S. Border Patrol and a 2009 American Civil Liberties Union study. Anderson's job is to get their bodies - or what is left of them - back to their families.