{"id":2029047,"date":"2023-09-12T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-southern-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-migration-route-un-finds\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:53:21","slug":"us-southern-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-migration-route-un-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-southern-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-migration-route-un-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Report: US Southern Border Tops Global List for Deadliest Land Migration Route"},"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\">26<\/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-southern-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-migration-route-un-finds%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=2029047&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--><h2>The Deadliest Land \u2062Migration Route: U.S.-Mexico Border<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>        The border fence in Sasabe, Arizona \/ Getty Images<br \/>\n\u2064 \u200d<br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>The U.S.-Mexico border is the world&#8217;s <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"><strong>deadliest<\/strong><\/span>  land migration\u2064 route, according \u2063to \u200dU.N. migration agency figures published on \u200dTuesday,\u200d with hundreds losing their lives attempting \u200dto make \u2062perilous desert crossings.<\/p>\n<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) documented 686 deaths \u2062and disappearances among migrants on the\u200d frontier\u200b last year, \u2063but \u200dthe actual\u200b figure is likely higher\u2063 due to missing data, including from the Texas border county coroner&#8217;s offices and the Mexican search and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-praises-heroic-work-of-coast-guard-diver-facing-discharge-over-vaccine-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden Praises \u2018Heroic Work\u2019 of Coast Guard Diver Facing Discharge Over Vaccine Mandate\">rescue agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a landscape of sweeping \u200ddesert,\u200c canyons,\u200b and cactus-studded hills,\u2064 migrants\u2062 fall prey to heat stroke\u200c in\u2063 summer\u200d and hypothermia in winter, U.S. border officials \u200bhave said. Some bodies are never \u200cfound.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Dillon, spokesperson for IOM, said that the figures recorded &#8220;represent the lowest estimates available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-humanitarian-crisis-at-the-border-keeps-getting-worse-but-biden-doesnt-care\/\" title=\"The Humanitarian Crisis At The Border Keeps Getting Worse, But Biden Doesn\u2019t Care\">alarming figures<\/a> are a stark reminder of the need for decisive action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-southern-border-is-worlds-deadliest-land-migration-route-un-finds\/\" title=\"UN Report: US Southern Border Tops Global List for Deadliest Land Migration Route\">create \u200dregular legal\u2064 migration pathways<\/a>,&#8221; he told reporters in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>IOM said that nearly half of\u200c the deaths recorded last year were linked\u200d to the crossing of the Sonoran and\u200b Chihuahuan Deserts.<\/p>\n<p>The number of deaths and disappearances documented by IOM along the border represents nearly half of \u200cthe 1,457 cases recorded throughout the Americas \u200blast \u2063year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the most concerning trends that IOM has seen in the Americas\u200d was the increase in deaths on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-claimed-it-inked-deal-with-guatemala-to-increase-border-security-guatemala-says-it-never-signed\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Claimed It Inked Deal With Guatemala To Increase Border Security. Guatemala Says It Never Signed.\">migration routes<\/a> \u200din the Caribbean,&#8221; Dillon said.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u200dthat 350 deaths had been \u2064documented in 2022, compared with\u200c 245 in \u20622021 and less than 170\u200d recorded in prior years. Most of the \u200cvictims on Caribbean migration routes were people from the Dominican\u2064 Republic, Haiti, and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The Darien Gap, a jungle border crossing between Panama and\u200d Colombia, saw 141 documented migrant deaths \u200clast year, according to IOM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u200d remote and dangerous nature \u200bof this area and the\u2063 presence of criminal gangs along the route means that this figure likely does not represent the actual number of lives lost,&#8221;\u200b Dillon said.<\/p>\n<p>Panama announced new \u200dmeasures last\u2063 week to curb rising migrant\u2063 crossings\u2063 through \u200cthe Darien Gap, which reached an all-time high this year.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by \u200bGabrielle T\u00e9trault-Farber; editing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-Mexico border holds the title of the world&#8217;s deadliest land migration route, as per U.N. migration agency data. In 2020, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants attempting treacherous desert crossings, highlighting the perilous nature of this journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2029048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}