The examiner is quoted in this AP story:

PHOENIX — The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the Pima County medical examiner’s office is using a refrigerated truck to store some of the bodies, the chief examiner said Friday.

The bodies of 40 illegal immigrants have been brought to the office of Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Parks since July 1. At that rate, Parks said, the deaths — which his office has been tracking since 2000 — could top the single-month record of 68 set in July 2005.

“Right now, at the halfway point of the month, to have so many is just a very bad sign,” he said. “It’s definitely on course to perhaps be the deadliest month of all time.”