Immigration
United Nations declares U.S.-Mexico border ‘deadliest’ migrant land route in the world
The United Nations (UN) made the stark declaration that the U.S.-Mexico border is the “deadliest” land route for migrants in the world. The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) revealed Tuesday it has documented the deaths or disappearances of roughly 700 migrants near the U.S. border with Mexico in 2022. The 686 total migrants dead or missing in the area make the Mexican frontier the deadliest migrant land route worldwide.
The IOM recorded 1,457 migrant deaths or disappearances in all of the Americas in 2022, meaning the border itself appears to be the site of nearly half of all migrant deaths or disappearances in the New World, reports Just The News.
“These alarming figures are a stark reminder of the need for decisive action by States. Enhancing data collection is crucial. Ultimately, what is needed is for countries to act on the data to ensure safe, regular migration routes are accessible,” said IOM Regional Director for Regional Director for Central and North America and the Caribbean Michele Klein Solomon.
Roughly half of the disappearances or deaths were connected to attempts to cross either the Sonoran or Chihuahuan Deserts, which span the borders of both nations. More than 6 million migrants have illegally entered in the United States since President Joe Biden took office. The White House and Democratic leadership has come under severe scrutiny for its lax border policies and dangerous rhetoric giving the impression that our borders are open.
Immigration
Ex-ICE Director Says Trump Deportation Policies Could End Migrant Gang ‘Lawlessness as Quickly as it Began’
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Ronald Vitiello has said president-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy plans could successfully bring down the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua (TdA).
Vitiello served as acting director of ICE from June 2018 to April 2019, and told Newsweek that under Trump’s proposed plans the gang could be “dismantled quickly.”
“In the case of Tren de Aragua, they can be dismantled quickly and definitively because their presence in the United States, although dangerous, has just begun,” he continued.
Newsweek reports that TdA is a transnational criminal organization formed in a Venezuelan prison, focuses on human trafficking and other abuses targeting vulnerable migrants.
“They are particularly vulnerable to removal and deportation, and so the United States could end their lawlessness as quickly as it began” said Vitiello who also previously served as the acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
TdA has been linked to a string of high-profile crimes, including the murders of nursing student Laken Riley, 22, and Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, as well as taking over a hotel in El Paso.
“We’ve seen deadly examples where illegals who have committed crimes and then went on to do terrible things, as in the case of Laken Reilly near Atlanta, who was killed by an individual from Venezuela who was here illegally and was arrested,” Vitiello said.
TdA is also known as the syndicate of which footage emerged of its armed gang members storming an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. The gang has been linked to a series of high-profile crimes, including murder, sexual assault, and sex trafficking in the U.S.
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