According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the US-Mexico border is the world’s most dangerous land crossing point for people seeking asylum.
The US-Mexico border was the world’s deadliest land route for migrant travel on record in 2022, according to a report released by IOM on Tuesday, with 686 documented asylum seekers’ deaths and disappearances.
According to IOM’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP), which was launched in 2014, this number represented nearly half of the 1,457 asylum seekers’ deaths and disappearances that were reported across the Americas in 2022, the deadliest year ever.
These figures represented the lowest estimates available, according to the IOM’s MMP annual report, which highlights the rising death toll and rising risks that asylum-seekers face throughout the region.
This is because many more deaths are likely to go unreported because there is a lack of information from official sources about the deaths of illegal migrants.
This report’s data shows that there were 8% fewer deaths and disappearances along the US-Mexico border than there were the year before.
Due to missing official data, such as that from the coroner’s offices in Texas border counties and the Mexican search and rescue organization, the report suggested that the 2022 figure is probably higher than the data suggests.
Far more than other desert regions where the passing of unauthorized asylum seekers is common, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts’ perilous crossing was connected to about half of the deaths on the US-Mexico border.
In 2022, the Sahara Desert saw the deaths of about 212 people.
However, the data in this regard is probably incomplete because of how remote these areas are.
The IOM Regional Director for Central and North America and the Caribbean, Michele Klein Solomon, stated that “these alarming numbers are a stark reminder of the need for decisive action by States.”
“It is essential to improve data collection. In the end, countries must act on the data to make sure that accessible, regular migration routes are safe.”
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