For well over a year now, stories of fatal shootings of young African American men by police officers have been making the news.

But when it comes to similar conflicts between law enforcement and undocumented immigrants, not much is known, according to

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Burghart is the editor of the Reno News Review, and he's created Encuentros Mortales. It's a Spanish-language website that will track these deadly episodes. 

Burghart first noticed the lack of information about deadly encounters between undocumented immigrants and law enforcement when he was working on Fatal Encounters, a website that tracks officer-involved homicides.

"I realized through doing my research for that website, that there was no information from the federal government about undocumented immigrants who had been killed by primarily federal agents," he said. 

While Encuentros Mortales is not yet complete, Burghart says it will be a more sophisticated place when all is said and done. Burghart is currently collecting information through news reports and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, but people will also be able to crowdsource incidents that will be verified through editors.

"Ultimately we hope that providing this information to the public will enable the public to modify police procedures so that fewer people are killed," he said.

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