Mapping Resources/Other Mapping Projects
Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants humaneborders.info
El Paso Sector Migrant Death Database elpasomigrantdeathdatabase.org
Migrant Deaths in South Texas https://www.strausscenter.org/publications/migrant-deaths-in-south-texas/
Lighthouse reports https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/rio-grande/
International Organization for Migration Missing Migrant Project https://missingmigrants.iom.int/
MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1144161/border-towers-surveillance-methodology/
Sources linked in this report:
Report
El Paso Sector Migrant Death Database (2024) http://www.elpasomigrantdeathdatabase.org
BORDER SECURITY: Additional Actions Needed to Evaluate the Missing Migrant Program.
GAO (April 2025) https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-25-107548/index.html
Making Migrant Death Data Count: Recommendations for Addressing An Alarming Trend in Preventable Migrant Deaths in the El Paso Sector https://www.hopeborder.org/_files/ugd/e07ba9_c45e7a422c9843a2bb9cd7aa7ff7cc6b.pdf
Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2021 – Statistical Tables. Bureau of Justice Statistics (November 2023) https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/fdcda21st.pdf
Increasing DPS chases create dangers on the border, report says, El Paso Matters (November 2023) https://elpasomatters.org/2023/11/27/human-rights-watch-challenges-dps-pursuit-policy/
As a San Diego neurosurgeon, I see the devastating toll of the raised border wall, Alexander Tenorio (April 2023) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-04-13/draft-tenorio-on-border-wall-injuries
The Price of Title 42 Is the Battered Bodies of My Patients, Brian Elmore, The Atlantic, (June 2023) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/migrants-border-wall-title-42/674339/
The Disappeared Report Part One: Deadly Apprehension Methods, NMD (2016) http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/part-one.html
CBP-Related Deaths Fiscal Year 2023 Report to Congress (2025) https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/fy20232-cbp-opr-related-deaths-report.pdf
‘There Is a Hidden Violence’: Jeremy Slack on the Human Tragedy of Deportation, Isabela Dias, Pacific Standard Magazine (2019) https://psmag.com/ideas/there-is-a-hidden-violence-jeremy-slack-on-the-human-tragedy-of-deportation/
Rio Grande Methodology – Lighthouse Reports, Charles Boutaud, Melissa del Bosque, Monica Camacho, Jack Sapoch, Charlotte Alfred, Justin Casimir Braun (December 2024) https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/rio-grande/
Open Letter to the United States Customs and Border Protection, NMD (December 2023) https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Eya1ZWPIzKdnhB8qoZgrre6sSSa2nXy3l704XunLUY/edit?usp=sharing
Methodology
Protocol Development for the Standardization of Identification and Examination of UBC Bodies Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: Binational Migration Institute
University of Arizona (2014)
https://bmi.arizona.edu/sites/bmi.arizona.edu/files/protocol.pdf
What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the US-Mexico border Molly Miranker, Rachel Daniell, Molly Kaplan, Veronica Flores-Guillen, Jasmine Hernandez, Heather Edgar, Kate Spradley, Nicholas Herrmann, Alberto Giordano (October 2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379073824002378?via%3Dihub
Border Patrol reports death of woman from San Ysidro migrant camp, KPBS Public Media, Gustavo Solis (2024) https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/10/12/border-patrol-reports-death-of-woman-from-san-ysidro-migrant-camp
Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants, Humane Borders (2025) http://humaneborders.info
Excessive Use of Force and Migrant Death and Disappearance in Southern Arizona – Robin C. Reineke, Daniel E. Martinez (2024) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23315024241270515
Migrant Deaths in South Texas, Strauss Center, University of Texas – Austin, Stephanie Leutert, Sam Lee, and Victoria Rossi (May 2020)https://www.strausscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SouthTexasMigrantDeaths_6.1.20.pdf
Request for congressional investigations and oversight hearings on the unlawful operation of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Critical Incident Teams (BPCITs), Southern Border Communities Calition (October 2021) https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/alliancesandiego/pages/3292/attachments/original/1635367319/SBCC_letter_to_Congress_Final_10.27.21.pdf?1635367319
Southwest Border: CBP Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Its Response to Incidents Involving Its Personnel, U.S. GAO (May 2024) https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106148
CBP-Related Deaths, Fiscal Year 2022 (March 2024)