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We can be thankful that we have a hostile desert as an obstacle to illegal emigration.

In such heat it will only take a very few days to cause mortality without food or water. In a couple to three days the victim will become dehydrated and disoriented. Humans need to consume several quarts of water daily to survive. A gallon of water weighs 8 pounds so a days supply could be 16 to 24 pounds. It can take 3 days to make it from the border to a road/pickup point in Arizona. Most border jumpers only carry 1 or 2 bottles of water, probably each less than a liter.

Usually the buzzards and other such sanitation crews will pick over the remains and leave only bones, if the corpses remain any length of time.