Customs and Border Safety (CBP) simply launched up to date knowledge on migrant deaths on the US-Mexico border, and the outcomes are staggering. Not less than 895 individuals died on the border throughout the 2022 fiscal yr — a 57 p.c improve from the earlier fiscal yr. This grim statistic makes 2022 the deadliest yr on document for migrants trying to return to the US, and it’s potential that the determine is an undercount.
For years, CBP has blamed the persistent rise in deaths on three components: the summer time warmth, the ruggedness of the desert terrain, and the cruelty of smugglers who go away migrants to die there.
Local weather change has certainly made summers hotter and drier, which suggests migrants who spend days or even weeks trekking via distant stretches of…
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