Migrant deaths on Mexican border increase
2023.03.28 20:22
Migrant deaths on Mexican border increase
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – Monday’s fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, resulted in the deaths of at least forty migrants.
As the United States and Mexico struggle with record numbers of border crossings, the fire was one of the deadliest in years and is the latest in a long line of fatal accidents involving migrants.
The following is a list of additional instances, beginning with the most recent, in which migrant groups have perished while attempting to reach the United States.
In March 2023, migrants choke to death on a train in Texas.
In Texas, two migrants died of suffocation aboard a freight train, and at least 15 others required medical attention. Alejando Mayorkas, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, attributed the deaths to “callous” smugglers who “only care about making a profit.”
February 2023: bus crash in central Mexico.
A bus carrying migrants from Venezuela, Colombia, and Central America collided in the central state of Puebla in Mexico, killing 17 people.
September 2022: drowning in the Rio Grande
As they attempted to cross the Rio Grande River into the United States, nine migrants died and 37 were saved, highlighting the dangers that hundreds of people face every day.
June 2022 truck smuggling incident in Texas.
53 transients from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador passed on in a boiling semi truck in Texas in the deadliest traveler dealing with episode on record the U.S.
Truck crash in southern Mexico, December 2021.
In one of the deadliest migrant tragedies in Mexico in a decade, a truck carrying approximately 166 migrants crashed in the southern state of Chiapas, killing 55 people, almost all of them Guatemalans.
Accidents on the roads of Veracruz in September 2021 and February 2020.
According to Mexican media and state authorities, their van overturned on a highway in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, killing four Cuban migrants and injuring eight others. One person was killed and 81 were injured when a bus carrying migrants overturned on another Veracruz highway the year before.
August 2021, van accident in Texas
Ten people were killed and numerous others were critically injured when a van carrying thirty people, many of whom were thought to be migrants, crashed in Texas, several miles from a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint.
California line crash, Walk 2021.
A vehicle carrying 25 migrants from Mexico and Guatemala collided with a tractor-trailer a few miles north of the border, resulting in the deaths of 13 migrants. The victims were part of a group of nearly four dozen migrants who were thought to have escaped through a crack in a border fence made by smugglers.
Deaths from dehydration at the Texas border in June 2019
After crossing the Mexican border into Texas, seven migrants, including a woman, two infants, and a toddler, died from dehydration and the extreme heat of the summer. In another instance, smugglers abandoned a group of migrants in a remote desert area, leaving a six-year-old Indian girl to die of heat stroke in Arizona.
Derailment of the Tabasco train in August 2013.
When a cargo train known as “La Bestia” (The Beast) derailed in the state of Tabasco, at least six people were killed. While attempting to catch a ride to the U.S. border, a number of migrants have either fallen to their deaths or been injured on the train.
2010 migrant massacre in Tamaulipas
In the San Fernando region of the northern state of Tamaulipas, 72 migrants, primarily from Central America, were killed. The U.N. office for human rights said that the group mostly came from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, but they also came from Ecuador, Brazil, and India.
