Body of illegal immigrant found


Published/Last Modified on Saturday, June 28, 2008 3:08 PM MDT


SIERRA VISTA — Cochise County Search and Rescue recovered the body of an illegal immigrant Wednesday evening after U.S. Border Patrol had taken a group of illegal immigrants into custody.


The group told agents they had left a man behind when he became ill. Responding agents located the body 1.7 miles southeast of Hereford on Hereford Road.

Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Spokeswoman Carol Capas said the deceased was 32-year-old Jorge Alberto Lopez Cervantes of Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico.

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    us citizen wrote on Jul 5, 2008 11:41 PM:

    " when the illegals get stranded out in the desert ,why do we bother to go rescue them? take them to hospitals at tax payers expense, they know how hot it is out there.but as long as they know we will help them they will just keep trying to come across the border Leave them out there. "

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