{"p"=>"Hundreds of human remains belonging to unauthorized migrant border crossers have been recovered annually since the late 1990s across the US southwest, representing those who die during clandestine migration journeys. These deaths are most directly the result of heat exposure and dehydration when people get lost, injured, or simply run out of energy or supplies during what is mostly on-foot travel through remote wilderness spaces over rough and arid terrain during journeys that can last days to weeks. Upon the recovery of their bodies, both Border Patrol and local medicolegal authorities engage in forensic interpretation and counting the dead, and each characterize these deaths as the results of accidents or natural causes. The intervention of this paper is a case for how this characterization is accurate, but critically misleading in a way that fosters impunity for a strategy of migration enforcement predicated on the suffering of those who enter the United States without authorization. It also offers a provocation towards a solution: Operating separately from the apparatus of federal border enforcement, local medicolegal officials can make a case that these deaths are definitionally—following official guidance for state death forms—Homicides."}