by Kenneth Jarecke–Contact for USN&WR

A Border Patrol agent calls in backup to help remove the body of 46-year-old Mexican woman found in the desert of Cochise County, Ariz. This year, Arizona is expected to surpass the record death toll set in 2002 as undocumented immigrants are forced to trek through forbidding mountains and deserts, where summer temperatures regularly reach 110 degrees. In the Border Patrol's Tucson, Ariz., sector, which is largely desert, more than 90 migrants have died since October. As recently as 1999, the annual number of deaths for the sector was 29.

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Immigration Rally 2006 View this essay

With an overhaul of immigration law stalled in Congress, demonstrators gathered April 10 in rallies nationwide to denounce the legislation. (4/12/06)

A Line in the Sand View this essay

This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif. (3/10/06)

Yemen View this essay

Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people (3/3/06)

Fixing Your Brain View this essay

Welcome to the new science of brain repair. Mickey Lawson, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, underwent surgery to ease his symptoms. (2/20/06)

New Orleans 2006 View this essay

U.S. News photographer Jim Lo Scalzo captured images of those to whom the real challenge of rebuilding will fall. Here's what he saw (2/18/06)

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