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(Im)migration Recap, Sept. 1-6

Victoria Macchi

   Editor's note: We want you to know what's happening, and why and how it
   could impact your life, family or business, so we created a weekly
   digest of the top original immigration, migration and refugee reporting
   from across VOA. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration
   team:[1]ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com.

   Migrant deaths spike in the Americas

   The [2]death toll for migrants traveling across the Americas is
   expected to reach a record high in 2019. Despite increased rescue
   attempts along the U.S.-Mexico border, some areas are seeing increases
   in deaths to nearly twice as many as last year. Dozens of children are
   among the dead, from boats sinking in the Caribbean to dehydration
   deaths in the southwestern U.S. desert. VOA immigration reporters
   Victoria Macchi and Ramon Taylor spoke with asylum-seekers and other
   migrants about their fears along the journey, and with border officials
   who face the grim regular task of recovering bodies from the river and
   desert.

   Read and watch more border coverage from the team about how the
   [3]migrant population in the Americas is diversifying and how the Trump
   administration's Migrant Protection Protocols are [4]stranding
   thousands of asylum-seekers in northern Mexico.

   Podcasting is everywhere

   In an Ethiopian refugee camp, eight young Somalis are learning the
   [5]art of the podcast. "Now I can go with my mic, I can record the
   voice, I can edit, I can produce very fantastic audios," said one new
   audiophile. "Now I am a great podcaster."

References

   1. mailto:ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com
   2. https://www.voanews.com/usa/2019-among-deadliest-years-migrants-trekking-us
   3. https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-mexico-border-africans-join-diversifying-migrant-community
   4. https://www.voanews.com/usa/how-us-governments-remain-mexico-plan-unfurled-confusion
   5. https://www.voanews.com/africa/new-tool-quell-violence-ethiopian-refugee-camps-podcasts

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