Cochise County sheriff's deputies found the body of a female illegal border crosser Wednesday south of Sierra Vista in the Huachuca Mountains.

At about 8:30 a.m., the U.S. Border Patrol called the Cochise County Sheriff's Office and told them that a man who was apprehended along with a group of illegal entrants said his niece had died the night before, said Carol Capas, Cochise County sheriff's spokeswoman.

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Border Patrol agents recovered the body of an illegal border crosser near Sasabe, stopped an RV with 54 illegal entrants inside near Sonoita, and found 72 people inside two stash houses in Nogales — all on Sunday.

The body was found at dawn Sunday near Sasabe, said Richard DeWitt, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. About midnight Saturday, two illegal entrants who were arrested three miles north of the border, east of Arizona 286, told agents that they'd left behind a man who was convulsing, he said. They said he had taken some kind of medication.

BORSTAR agents, the agency's search, trauma and rescue unit, began a search with the aid of an agency helicopter, DeWitt said. At 3:45 a.m, they found the body of an adult man. His travel companions said they were all from Chiapas, Mexico.

This was at least the fifth body recovered in August by the Border Patrol. The agency recovered 154 bodies of illegal border crossers in the Tucson Sector from Oct. 1 through July 31, compared with 150 during the same time in 2006 and 186 through the same time in 2005.

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A roughly 70-mile expanse of desert, where rattlesnakes blend in with the rocks and Border Patrol trucks rumble by, ready to snare trespassers, stood between "Santiago" and his dream of a better life.

By age 16, he knew the small, Mexican town where he grew up had no jobs for him, and visas to work in the United States were scarce.

As a child, Santiago says he and his siblings lived with their grandmother because their parents couldn't afford a home. By the time he reached fifth grade, Santiago, who'd always been a good student, began missing classes regularly to work in the fields, earning what he could to help his family. He fell behind in his studies and dropped out to start working fulltime.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent answering a call to an emergency beacon in a remote desert area Thursday found a dying man and saved him, a Border Patrol spokesman said.

The 27-year-old from Guatemala was severely dehydrated from the heat.
The man, whose name was not released, had crossed into the U.S. with a group of immigrants, probably near San Miguel, about 30 miles south of Sells, Border Patrol Agent Michael Scioli said.

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The discovery Thursday of the bodies of two illegal border crossers northwest of Tucson has added to a record-breaking year in Pima County for border deaths.
There were 152 illegal border crossers found dead in the county from Jan. 1 through July 25, a pace that is well ahead of 2006 and eclipses the record set in 2005, when there were 131 at this same time, said Dr. Bruce Parks, chief medical examiner at the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner.
"It's scary," Parks said.

Deputies were called at 7:45 a.m. Thursday by two residents who found a body southwest of Marana at North Trico and West Magee roads, said Dawn Hanke, spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

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