The migratory crisis in America caused the death of 1,238 people in 2021, including 51 children under 5 years of age and 728 migrants who tried to cross from Mexico to the United States , “which makes it the deadliest land crossing in the world”, indicated the International Organization for Migration (IOM) this Friday.
“The number of deaths on the border between the United States and Mexico last year was significantly higher than in any previous year, even before Covid-27″, pointed out Edwin Viales one of the authors of the report that presents the figures.
In detail, at least 136 Venezuelans have died in transit in the last 18 months, in addition to 108 Cubans and 90 Haitians, the agency noted.
However, the largest demographic group is that of non-identified people. entified. The country of origin of more than 500 people whose deaths were recorded since 2021 is listed as “unknown”.
In addition, the death last week of 53 migrants in the trailer of a truck in which they were abandoned in San Antonio , Texas, 27 of them Mexican citizens, increased to 108 the number of migrant deaths so far this year.
“However, this figure continues to be an underreporting due to various problems in data collection,” said Viales.
“We cannot forget that each number is a human being with a family who may never know what happened to them” , he lamented.
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