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Two counts of firearm possession. On June 27, 2022, 53 migrants were found dead in and around a tractor-trailer near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, United States. [2] The deaths, caused by heat exposure and asphyxiation, reportedly occurred during an apparent illegal migrant smuggling attempt across the U.S.–Mexico border.
The United States border with Mexico is one of the world's "most lethal land borders". [ 1 ] Hundreds of migrants die per year as they attempt to cross into the United States from Mexico illegally. [ 2 ] The US Border Patrol reported 251 migrant deaths in the fiscal year 2015 (ending September 30, 2015), which was lower than any year during the ...
Some migrant deaths may go unreported even when they are brought to the attention of officials. In a recent interaction between WOLA and Border Patrol officials, the agency claims to have found 640 deceased migrants between October 2022 and August 2023. [17] Yet, this still reflects an undercount.
He said that 350 deaths had been documented in 2022, compared with 245 in 2021 and less than 170 recorded in prior years. Most of the victims on Caribbean migration routes were people from the ...
The border wall is visible with the naked eye just a few miles south of Sunland Park, New Mexico on Oct. 14, 2023. Dozens of migrants have died in this stretch of desert in 2023.
It's one of the contributing factors to a mental health crisis that has led U.S. Customs and Border Protection to drastically expand support for agents over the past 18 months after 15 agents ...
27. On 27 March 2023, a fire occurred at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States. The fire killed 40 people and left 27 others seriously injured. [1][2] According to Vice interviewees, prison officials demanded bribes from migrants to release them and avoid deportation. [3]
Doctors in San Diego are seeing migrants arrive daily in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries after attempting to climb over the 30-foot border wall to come into the United States.