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September 14, 2023

United Nations: U.S.-Mexico Border Has Become the Deadliest Land Migration Route
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The International Organization for Migration has found the U.S.-Mexico
border to be the world's deadliest land migration route.

Paul Dillon: "The International Organization for Migration documented
the deaths and disappearances of 686 migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border
in 2022, making it the deadliest land route for migrants worldwide last
year. The figure represents nearly half of the 1,457 migrant deaths and
disappearances recorded throughout the Americas last year, the deadliest
year on record since the Missing Migrants Project began in 2014."

The U.N. agency said the true toll is likely to be much higher. Half of
the recorded deaths near the border are linked to the Sonoran and
Chihuahuan Deserts. The IOM called on governments to urgently "create
regular legal migration pathways" to prevent further unnecessary
tragedy.


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