{"id":1538832,"date":"2022-07-04T21:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538832"},"modified":"2022-07-04T21:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T01:34:29","slug":"us-mexico-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-crossing-un-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-mexico-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-crossing-un-study\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Mexico Border Is World\u2019s \u2018Deadliest\u2019 Land Crossing: UN Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-mexico-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-crossing-un-study%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S.-Mexico border has become the world\u2019s \u201cdeadliest\u201d land crossing, according to data recently brought to light by a United Nations study.<\/p>\n<p>A historic high of 728 recorded immigrant deaths and disappearances along the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in 2021 has made the land crossing the deadliest in the world, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/missingmigrants.iom.int\/sites\/g\/files\/tmzbdl601\/files\/publication\/file\/MMP%20annual%20regional%20overview%202021%20LAC_Executive%20Summary-ENG_0.pdf\">study<\/a> conducted by the United Nations agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n<p>These deaths accounted for the majority of the 1,238 immigrant deaths in the Americas in 2021, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/news\/latest-migrant-tragedy-texas-highlights-crisis-along-deadliest-migration-land-route#:~:text=At%20least%20728%20of%20these,world%2C%20according%20to%20the%20data.\">IOM said<\/a> in a press release on July 1, adding that these numbers should be considered an \u201cundercount\u201d due to difficulties in collecting data.<\/p>\n<p>The study attributed the deaths and disappearance of immigrants in the Americas to a \u201clack of options for safe and regular mobility,\u201d saying that this would drive migrants, presumably those choosing to enter as illegal aliens, to pursue riskier dangerous pathways to their destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also noted how the dangers faced by migrants are highlighted by recent news about what amounted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/court-document-reveals-likely-cause-of-texas-mass-human-trafficking-deaths_4573884.html\">deadliest known smuggling incident<\/a> in American history: the discovery of 53 bodies in a tractor-trailer packed with 67 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-immigrants\">illegal immigrants<\/a> in San Antonio on June 27.<\/p>\n<p>The record deaths came as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents reported a record number of apprehensions along the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBP statistics obtained by The Epoch Times, border patrol agents from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego apprehended 232,628 illegal border crossers in May\u2014the highest monthly total in 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, 79 illegal immigrants were found dead or died while crossing the border, according to the CBP data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that many people come across the border, it\u2019s just a matter of math\u2014you increase those that come across the border, you increase those that put themselves into the hands of the criminal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-Mexico border has become the world\u2019s \u201cdeadliest\u201d land crossing, according to data recently brought to light by a United Nations study. 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