The greater the slope, the steeper the climb, and thus the more difficult and dangerous to traverse. [...] The brown dashed line represents the boundary of the Sonoran Desert, and the purple dashed line represents the border of the Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation. [...] As shown in Figure 2, the most dangerous areas are in the western region in the Sonoran Desert, while the least dangerous region is to the east of the Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation. [...] In Figure 4 it is clear that the majority of remains were discovered in the area of the Sonoran Desert that lies to the east of the Lukeville Port of Entry at Sonoyta and to the west of the Nogales Port of Entry. [...] This suggests that the construction of the border wall, as part of the SFA, altered the paths of migrants attempting to cross the border.
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Table of Contents
- Cynthia Bansak 1
- Abigail Hall Blanco 1
- Michael Coon 1
- Suzanne Dieringer 1
- Border Walls and Death on the US Mexico Border A Hot-Spot Analysis of the Impact of the Secure Fences Act in Arizona 1
- 1 Abstract 2
- 1 Introduction 3
- 2 Background on Border Policies 1986 to 2020 4
- 3 Literature Review 5
- 3.1 Deaths at the Border 5
- 3.2 Deaths at the Border and Counterterrorism Policy 7
- 4 Data and Methodology 7
- 4.1 Methodology 7
- 4.2 Data Sources 9
- 5 Results 9
- 5.1 Visual Data Analysis 9
- 5.2 Hot-Spot Analysis 11
- 6 Conclusion 11
- References 13
- Appendix 17
