World Apr 23 Hours after UK approved deportation bill, 5 migrants die attempting to cross English Channel By Associated Press
World Mar 27 Project documents more than 63,000 migrant deaths a decade, immense danger of fleeing home Despite the rise of border walls and heightened surveillance worldwide, smugglers always seem to find lucrative alternatives, leading migrants and refugees on longer and more perilous routes. By Renata Brito, Kerstin Sopke, Associated Press
Nation Mar 06 Watch 4:03 News Wrap: Fed chair says interest rates could be cut this year In our news wrap Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says interest rates could be cut this year if inflation keeps falling, Alabama lawmakers moved to shield IVF providers, politicians in Haiti try to form a new governing coalition, a…
Nation Jan 14 Texas blocked border agents attempting to save 3 migrants who drowned, U.S. officials say The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Saturday that Texas denied federal agents access to a stretch of border when they were trying to rescue three migrants who drowned. By Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press
World Oct 06 Southern Mexico bus crash kills at least 16 migrants, injures dozens Authorities say least 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, the latest in a series of migrant deaths in Mexico amid a surge in migrants traveling toward the U.S. border. By Associated Press
May 21 Child who died in Border Patrol custody ‘begged’ for medical help, her mother says By Associated Press An 8-year-old girl who died last week in Border Patrol custody was seen at least three separate times by medical personnel on the day of her death before she was taken to a hospital, U.S. immigration officials said Sunday. Continue reading
Jun 28 51 people dead from Texas heat after being left in abandoned trailer By Elliot Spagat, Terry Wallace, Associated Press Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning. Continue reading
Jul 12 More migrant deaths recorded in heat along Arizona border By Anita Snow, Associated Press The bodies of an unusually large number of migrants who died in Arizona's borderlands are being recovered this summer amid record temperatures. The nonprofit group Humane Borders maps the discoveries with data from the medical examiner in Tucson. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch 3:48 News Wrap: California becomes first state to surpass 2 million COVID infections In our news wrap Thursday, the COVID-19 death toll topped 327,000 as California becomes the first state to surpass 2 million infections, a powerful winter storm barrels toward the East Coast, Ethiopian forces killed 42 armed men accused of massacring… Continue watching
Oct 23 Watch 2:49 News Wrap: British police discover 39 bodies in truck cargo container In our news wrap Wednesday, British police discovered 39 bodies in a truck cargo container. Authorities say they believe it came from Belgium as part of a human-trafficking operation, and the truck driver has been arrested. Also, mass demonstrations in… Continue watching