U.S. Says Migrant Deaths Fell on Mexico Border
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - The number of illegal  migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border fell 4.4  percent in the last year, the U.S. government said on Monday.
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Patricia Lopez&#039;s journey toward a better life in the United States ended with a nighttime robbery, a twisted ankle and a Border Patrol escort to the frontier &amp;#151; where she was dumped at dawn without a peso in her pocket, 1,575 miles from home.
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Traffic chaos eases at the scene of a border death crash in which two people died.
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The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific, officials said.
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MATAMOROS, Mexico  - Six guards were found  murdered outside a high security prison on Mexico's border with  Texas on Thursday in the latest bloody episode in weeks of  prison violence being blamed on powerful drug gangs.
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AT ISSUE: Critics accuse Border Patrol of underreporting number of illegal immigrants who die crossing border. Border Patrol says its vigilance has helped reduce deaths.
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U.S. homeland security officials are preparing to abandon plans to develop a system to track the departure of foreign visitors at land borders, citing cost and technical obstacles in scaling back a major post-Sept. 11 domestic security initiative, officials said.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza told Mexican leaders Wednesday he is concerned that growing drug-related violence and kidnappings on the border between the two countries will have a "chilling" effect on trade and tourism.
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A sport utility vehicle crammed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over in an attempt to outrun Border Patrol agents, killing nine people and injuring at least 12 others, officials said.
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President Bush's immigration plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants while fortifying the border collapsed in the Senate on Thursday, crushing both parties' hopes of addressing the volatile issue before the 2008 elections.
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua  - The number of people killed when Hurricane Felix tore into the border area between Nicaragua and Honduras this week has jumped to at least 130, a Nicaraguan rescue official said on Friday.
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Twenty-seven Americans have been abducted in Mexico's northern border region over the past six months and two have been killed, the State Department said Thursday.
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned at sea in separate incidents off Yemen, Turkey and the Canary Islands so far this month, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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SAN DIEGO Oct 24, 2004 - Rescuers hiked though rugged terrain near the Mexican border Sunday to reach the remote site where a private jet went down after taking off from San Diego, killing all five people aboard.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - Hurricane Lane fizzled out on   Sunday after leaving a trail of destruction on Mexico's Pacific   coast that killed two people, washed away roads and knocked   down flimsy homes.