US-Mexico Border Is World’s ‘Deadliest’ Land Crossing: UN Study

Illegal immigrants who crossed the Rio Grande River walk along concertina wire in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 22, 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S.-Mexico border has become the world’s “deadliest” land crossing, according to data recently brought to light by a United Nations study.

A historic high of 728 recorded immigrant deaths and disappearances along the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in 2021 has made the land crossing the deadliest in the world, according to the study conducted by the United Nations agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM).