GENEVA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The number of migrants who died crossing theUnited States-Mexico border in 2017 remained high, despite a 44 percent fall in border arrests reported by the U.S. Border Patrol between 2016 and 2017, the UN migration agency IOM said Tuesday. In 2017, 412 migrant...
A massive increase in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border that peaked during the hot summer months led to a record-setting number of migrant apprehensions in fiscal year 2021, which ended in September. Roughly 61% of the migrants encountered during the past 12 months were quickly expelled to...
Encounters at points of entry along theU.S.-Mexico borderbetween federal agents and immigrants illegally entering the U.S. exceeded those that took place between ports of entry for the first time in history last month, according to new data. Encounters reported byU.S. Customs and Border Protec...
20, when Border Patrol averaged 9,773 daily apprehensions, according to the data. On several days that week, the agency processed more than 10,000 migrants in 24 hours. Unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have decreased this week, but remain at historically high levels. On ...
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Drone footage shows thousands of young people have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.The number of unaccompanied teens and children in U.S. custody along the U.S.-Mexico border has reached record numbers, forcing children to stay longer in perilously overcrowded border facilit...
For migrant female sex workers (FSWs) at the Sino-Vietnamese border, the impact of work time in their current location on the spread of HIV/AIDS is not clear. Methods Data were collected from the Sino-Vietnamese border cities of Guangxi, China. Migrant FSWs working in these cities were ...
An increasing number of deaths on the United States–Mexico border have been recorded each year since 2014, totalling 1,907 over five years The timely focus on children is part of IOM's contribution to a recent call to action launched by UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, Eurostat and OECD to improve ...
began on March 25 in the Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border. While it slowly traveled across Mexico, Mr. Trump used it as an example to try to win more support for his planned border wall -- even though the asylum-seekers plan to turn themselves in to border ...
U.S. directly, as part of an effort to reduce what at the time were record arrivals of Venezuelan migrants along the southern border. In January, the initiative was expanded to include Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans, who also journeyed to the U.S.-Mexico border in record numbers last...