Dozens of children and hundreds of young women are among thousands of migrants who have died in desperate attempts to enter the US, according to official figures that lay bare the scale of the southern border crisis.
Analysis by Newsweek of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows that the rate at which women die on the border has surged and that at least 19 children under the age of 10 have died since 2016.
The figures, obtained by campaign group No More Deaths and shared with Newsweek, also reveal that the Del Rio Sector in Texas saw 257 deaths recorded in one year alone.
Lawmakers and human rights groups have called for action in the wake of Newsweek’s findings, describing the death toll as “staggering”.
Senator Ted Cruzwarned that people smugglers value migrants less …