[Editor's note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]
By Fred Lucas
The Daily Signal
Under the Biden administration, deaths of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border have increased by almost 300 from the prior year, and by 200 from the last non-pandemic year, according to a United Nations agency that now classifies the southern border as the “deadliest land crossing in the world.”
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with President Joe Biden. Their meeting occurred less than a month after 48 migrants were found dead in or near an abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, and five of 16 others hospitalized later died.
From January to December 2021, a total of 1,238 lost their lives while migrating in North America and South America, more than half of them on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data released this month by the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project.
“At least 728 of these deaths occurred on the United States-Mexico border crossing, making this the deadliest land crossing in the world, according to the data,” the report from the U.N. agency says.