More migrants dying from heat on US-Mexico border

[Judi Lynn]

Reuters
Texas
June 26, 2018
UPDATED: June 26, 2018 08:49 IST



A Honduran family seeking asylum wakes up on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros
International Bridge after spending the night there because US Customs and Border Protection
officers denied them entry near Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Reuters)


The number of migrants dying from extreme heat on the US-Mexico border rose 55 percent in the last nine months after an increase in unaccompanied children and families trying to enter the United States illegally, the US government said on Monday.

Heat-related deaths, the main cause of migrant fatalities on the US southwest border, rose to 48, up from 31 over the same period in 2017, said US Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Salvador Zamora.

The death toll is expected to rise in the triple-digit heat of summer months as vulnerable, unacclimatized immigrants attempt to cross harsh environments, putting border fatalities on track for a year-on-year increase in 2018, Zamora said.

The Border Patrol recorded a 12 percent year-on-year rise in immigrant arrests in the eight months to May 31, Zamora said.


More:
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/more-migrants-dying-from-heat-on-us-mexico-border-1269786-2018-06-26

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[Leghorn21]

1. People are literally and actually "frying in hell" here, and lord amighty, someday it'll be someone

else’s turn.

goddamit

[donkeypoofed]

2. This is pathetic! How can we help?

Anybody know of any agencies on the the ground who could deliver cooling tents or something?! The lack of humanity is stunning ! OMG. Every day it's something worse.