Guerette studies migrant deaths along the U.S. and Mexico border and the role of the U.S. Border Patrol in responding to them. He explores the limitations of trying to prevent migrant deaths through the reversal of U.S. immigration policy and the relaxing of border security. Using a Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) framework, Guerette examines the nature and circumstance of border deaths and offers several pragmatic ways of preventing future deaths through proactive life saving measures. This effort not only identifies the need to manage this emerging facet of migration but also because it applies a method largely used to prevent conventional crimes to this transnational issue.