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Four migrants died in #ICE custody during the first 10 days of this year.

The latest death makes at least the 5th this year.

"At least 30 people died in ICE custody last year, the highest annual total in two decades...Human rights groups and former detainees have repeatedly raised concerns about conditions inside detention facilities, including access to medical care."

#USA #US #DHS #immigration #MigrantDeaths #ImmigrantDeaths
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Mexico Seeking Details Of Death Of Mexican Citizen In ICE Facility In Georgia: 'Permanent Communication'

The Mexican government is seeking answers about the death of a citizen under ICE custody in Georgia, with the country's consulate saying it is "closely monitoring" the situation.

Latin Times
Africa: Migrant Deaths Hit New Record in 2024 With At Least 8,938 Lives Lost: [RFI] At least 8,938 people died while attempting to migrate to another country in 2024 - marking the deadliest year on record for migrants worldwide, the UN said on Friday. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJgGCH #MigrantCrisis #MigrantDeaths #HumanRights #Migration #RefugeesWelcome

Death in the Border’s El Paso Sector

Border Patrol agents recovered the remains of 175 migrants in the agency’s El Paso Sector (far west Texas plus New Mexico), a shocking increase. An alarming thing about these deaths is that—unlike in Arizona, where people must walk for days—most of these deaths are within a few miles of the borderline, not far from services and help.

The number comes from USA Today reporter Lauren […]

#BorderSecurity #Charts #MigrantDeaths #Migration #Statistics

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August 28, 2024 Border Update Video

This week’s WOLA border video asks why more migrants are dying on US soil, when fewer migrants overall are actually coming.

#BorderSecurity #BorderUpdate #MigrantDeaths #Migration #Video

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Indore: As Oxygen shortage builds, BJP politicians keep a truck waiting for two hours so that they can get their photo opp."

M. Rajshekhar's notes on the first two weeks of the deadly second wave of Covid-19.

#covid19 #CovidDeathToll #CovidMismanagement #healthcare #HealthMinistry #MigrantDeaths #OxygenShortage #CovidMassCremations #BJP #HarshVardhan #india

https://mrajshekhar.in/2021/04/23/covid-19-2021/

23 April-8 May, 2021. The first two weeks of the second wave of Covid-19.

As I start populating this page with text, the second wave of Covid-19 has broken across India. If the first wave had been terrifying, I lack words to describe the second one. Not only are some of …

Fractured/Earth
Woman, 2 children die crossing Rio Grande as Border Patrol says Texas troops prevented them from intervening

A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday night in Eagle Pass, Texas, after U.S. border agents were prevented from responding, federal officials said Saturday.

NBC News

What bothers me particularly about this deleted tweet by former but still sitting Labour MP Dianne Abbott is that opinion appears to be equally divided on its appropriateness.

#MigrantDeaths #DianneAbbott #LeeAnderson

As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage http://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/23/greece_migrant_shipwreck_media_coverage #Titan #Greece #MigrantDeaths #refugees #MediaCoverage #WhoseLivesMatter #refugeesmatter
As Media Spotlights Titanic Sub, Hundreds of Migrants Who Died in Greek Shipwreck Get Scant Coverage

As many as 700 migrants are feared to have died after an overloaded fishing vessel capsized last week off the coast of Greece. As search and rescue efforts continue with dwindling expectations, the Greek Coast Guard is facing backlash over its failure to help rescue passengers before the boat sank. Most of the migrants were women and children; many were from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and Palestine. They are presumed victims of what may be one the deadliest migrant shipwrecks ever recorded, yet the story has received far less public attention than the search for five passengers aboard a submersible to view the wreck of the Titanic. All five of those passengers were confirmed by the U.S. Coast Guard to have likely died Sunday, days before wall-to-wall media coverage began to speculate about their plight. We discuss this disparity and the European refugee crisis at large with two guests: Giorgos Kosmopoulos, a senior migration campaigner for Amnesty International, and Laurence Bondard, spokesperson and operations communications manager for SOS Méditerranée, a nongovernmental rescue organization that operates in the central Mediterranean. Bondard has sailed on seven rescue missions with the NGO, part of a growing necessity in the region, where European countries have withheld the resources available for sea rescue. In the last decade, more than 30,000 refugees are estimated to have drowned in the Mediterranean.

Democracy Now!
Workable proposals? No, western immigration policy is a theatre of cruelty

Another week and more drownings in the Channel. Politicians’ words of regret are hypocritical: they chose not to prevent them

The Guardian