Not all 43 of those people died in June, but at least 16 had been dead for just a day and another 13 for less than a week when they were found, said Mike Kreyche, a mapping coordinator for Humane Borders. The group’s figures include all bodies recovered of people believed to have been migrants and are higher than the number of deaths reported by the Border Patrol, which only counts those it handles in the course of its work.
Kreyche noted that the 127 sets of remains found during the first half of this year were far higher than the 96 bodies recovered during the same period last year. This year’s six-month recovery toll also is higher than that of all of 2017, when 123 sets of remains were found near Arizona’s border with Mexico.
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