Migrant Deaths - Page 2

NBC News tried and failed to get vice-presidential candidate JD Vance to validate the Democrats’ “family separation” talking point, in the hope he would damage President Donald Trump’s promise to deport illegal migrants.

An illegal migrant died in the English Channel as the crisis continues unabated under the new left-wing Labour Party government in Britain.

One of the most dangerous obstacles for migrants hoping to enter the United States at the southern border may be closing after an election-year agreement between Panama and the Biden administration. On Monday, the White House announced an agreement between the two governments to significantly reduce crossings through Panama’s Darien Gap, potentially closing the pathway to scores of migrants headed to the United States’ southern border in search of asylum.

A Texas jury sentenced George Alvarez, the driver who lost control of his vehicle, killing the migrants outside a homeless shelter in May 2023, to 60 years in prison. Alvarez learned his fate on Friday after deliberations concluded on the eight counts of intoxication manslaughter. Barely one year passed since the eight migrants were killed during an early morning car crash in the border town of Brownsville, Texas.

The Italian coast guard has recovered 14 more bodies from last week’s shipwreck in the Ionian Sea off the southern Italian coastline.

An aid group said Saturday it recovered the bodies of 11 migrants off the Libyan coast and transferred them to an Italian coast guard ship.

Five migrants lost their lives during a five-day stretch just in one Texas border sector. In the Del Rio Sector, once the busiest region for migrant crossings in the nation, five migrants perished as they attempted to reach the United States.  

Hundreds of illegal migrants are being killed on construction sites around the nation, marking another hidden cost of President Joe Biden’s progressive welcome for cheap migrant labor.

Biden’s border chief has killed thousands of migrants and rewarded Mexico’s cartels with many billions of dollars, a GOP impeachment manager said.

Republican House members have delivered their articles of impeachment against pro-migration DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed that eight bodies that floated onto a beach over the weekend those of Chinese migrants. The group is believed to have drowned while being moved further into the country after entering from Guatemala.

President Joe Biden’s welcome lured more than 1,000 mostly Latino migrants to their deaths along his border in 2022, according to an agency statement quietly released on March 18.

A rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast on Friday, killing at least 22 people, officials said.

Fact Check: Biden falsely claimed “I will not separate [migrant] families” during the migration section of his State of the Union speech. VERDICT: FALSE.

Two migrants drowned so far this week while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas from the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila. Authorities in Mexico recorded a total of 50 migrant deaths so far this year on the shared Coahuila-Texas border.

A seven-year-old girl drowned after an illegal migrant boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel from the beaches of France.

Greek authorities found 84 boat migrants and arrested four individuals, accusing them of being the traffickers that transported them.

Claims of abuse, negligence, and human rights violations continue to plague Mexico’s largest immigration station. Last week, authorities tried to cover up their negligence in the second fatality in this facility in a matter of weeks.

Mexican authorities found 14 drowned migrants in the border area between Coahuila and Texas in January. Unlike the case from earlier this year, where Texas became a political target over the drowning of three migrants, the other nine drownings have been largely ignored by U.S. news outlets.

Authorities in the Mexican border state of Coahuila are looking into the killing of two migrants whose bodies were found inside a home that had been set on fire.

Four people were found dead overnight in another suspected drowning of migrants trying to cross the dangerous English Channel from France.

A Mexican migrant woman and her two sons drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas. The drowning comes as the Coahuila-Texas border continues to be one of the main hotspots for illegal border crossings, leading to six fatalities in 12 days.

As the Biden administration’s border crisis continues in record-shattering numbers, Border Patrol agents must also deal with migrant deaths and rescues. Thus far in December, agents recovered the bodies of 14 migrants who died while or shortly after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. Another 240 migrants were rescued from life-threatening circumstances by Border Patrol agents, according to a Border Patrol report.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson offered condolences to the family of a five-year-old migrant child who died of an unknown illness over the weekend at a city-operated migrant shelter. The child, Jean Carlos Martinez-Rivero, was a new arrival at a converted warehouse known as the Pilsen Shelter, which was used to house migrants.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the bodies of 15 drowned migrants during the first seven weeks of the new fiscal year. This as the sector continues to see massive numbers of migrants making the dangerous march across the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas.

Top immigration officials in Mexico are trying to cover up the negligent death of a Cuban migrant who died after agents refused to provide medical care until it was too late.

Border Patrol agents and Texas law enforcement officers continue to rescue migrants in danger of drowning as they attempt to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico. Unfortunately, some are not as fortunate and die while attempting the dangerous border crossing.

U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) voiced his support for the latest attempt by Congress to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Gonzales cited the deaths of innocent American bystanders caused by the border crisis as one reason he supports the measure. Gonzales addressed the issue with Breitbart Texas saying, “From restricting ICE’s deportation authorities to exploiting the parole program, he will stop at nothing to get around our immigration laws.”

Mexican authorities recovered the bodies of two migrants from the banks of the Rio Grande over the weekend. The drowning marks the 42nd case this year in that particular border city.

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief says he will build several more miles of President Donald Trump’s border wall to divert migrants away from several gaps that he has left open since 2021.

More than 2,500 illegal boat migrants have drowned to death or have gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the U.N. reported.

Four human smugglers whose organization is tied to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel pleaded guilty to their role in two incidents where eight migrants died. The conviction comes when the U.S.-Mexico border continues to draw international headlines due to the record-setting number of migrants crossing the border illegally.

Border Patrol agents recovered the body of a three-year-old migrant child who drowned while crossing the Texas border river with Mexico on Wednesday near Eagle Pass, Texas. A second migrant, an adult, drowned within 24 hours in the same area. The recovery of the second body is underway Thursday morning.

The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) declared the U.S.-Mexico border the deadliest land border crossing after documenting 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants on in 2022. Tuesday’s announcement noted the toll for migrant disappearances and deaths throughout the Americas is the deadliest year on record since the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP) began.

The Arizona desert is becoming a deathtrap for many migrants journeying into the United States. The Tucson Sector has the dubious distinction of being the deadliest in the nation for migrants crossing the border from Mexico.

A group of Mexican firefighters rescued a Venezuelan migrant who was drowning after being caught in the strong currents of the Rio Grande. The rescue comes at a time when the Coahuila-Texas border region continues to experience a high number of migrant fatalities.