Migrant deaths double amid record heat, apprehensions

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Migrant deaths double amid record heat, apprehensions
by: Julian Resendiz

Posted: Oct 31, 2023 / 06:32 PM CDT

Updated: Nov 1, 2023 / 08:26 AM CDT

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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Migrant deaths more than doubled in the last 12 months in the El Paso region, amid record-setting heat and U.S. Border Patrol encounters.

The El Paso Sector that runs from Hudspeth County, Texas, to the New Mexico-Arizona state line recorded 149 migrant fatalities and 597 rescues from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023. That compares to 71 deaths and 493 life-saving interventions in fiscal year 2022, according to updated data released by the Border Patrol on Tuesday.

Heat-related deaths rose dramatically from one year to the next. A total of 60 migrants died of heat stress-related conditions in FY 2023, compared to only 19 the previous year. That coincided with El Paso recording 70 days with triple-digit heat, including 33 in which temperatures rose above 105 degrees, according to KTSM.

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/migrant-deaths-double-amid-record-heat-apprehensions/

[DefiantMassRINO]

They're lucky I'm not Border Czar ... there'd be walls, fences, razor wire, electric fences, ditches, snake pits, mine fields, moats ... how long can pirahnas, crocodiles, bull sharks, and anacondas live in the Rio Grande?  It would make the old East German border look like Disney World.

"Open borders" hastened the demise of the Western Roman Empire.  The Great Wall of China was a border wall against Mongol invasion.