US-Mexico Border Is World’s ‘Deadliest’ Land Crossing: UN Study

In May, border patrol agents from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego arrested 232,628 unlawful boundary crossers, the largest monthly number in 23 years. Now, a UN study has labeled the US-Mexico border as the world’s ‘deadliest’ land crossing.

According to information recently made public by a United Nations report, the U.S.-Mexico border has evolved into the "deadliest" land crossing in the entire globe.

According to a research (read below) done by the UN agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a historic high of 728 confirmed immigrant deaths and disappearances along the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in 2021 rendered the land crossing the deadliest in the globe.

The IOM stated in a news statement on July 1 that these fatalities made up the majority of the 1,238 immigrant deaths across the Americas in 2021, noting that these figures should be viewed as a "undercount" due to challenges in data collection.

The lack of "options for safe and regular ...

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