The local office has handled nearly 1,700 of the 2,000 bodies of illegal border crossers found in ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥'s desert since 2001. Here are the office's yearly totals:
2001 - 75
2002 - 147
2003 - 156
2004 - 170
2005 - 196
2006 - 175
2007 - 218
2008 - 171
2009 - 194
2010 - 167*
Decade total: 1,669
*2010 as of Aug. 18
