If the Catholic Church, Mexican Govt, LaRaza, ect.. ect... didnt encourage it, that would be a start.

Also, Like to see the numbers on people dieing from illegal drugs smuggled across teh border.

It said the agency needs to get a better handle on how well its agents are preventing these deaths.

waot....so now the US is to blame for Mexicans dying when ILLEGALLY jumping the border.....maybe the number is increasing because more immigrants are crossing over. We need to employ stricter rules and authorize more force

This actually is good news. Considering that the numbers of illegals is now probably a thousand fold, the doubling of deaths is a remarkably small increase.

A decade ago, most migrant deaths were the result of traffic accidents, the report said. But in recent years, the major cause of death has been heat exposure, especially in the Arizona desert in the Border Patrol's Tucson sector.

This suggests that the increased in desert deaths is not due to greater immigration, but to the shifting pattern of the routes immigrants take.