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Crossing the US-Mexico border is deadlier than ever for migrants – here's why

  • Written by Joseph Nevins, Professor of Geography, Vassar College
Crossing the US-Mexico border is deadlier than ever for migrants – here's whyA makeshift memorial where a tractor-trailer was discovered with 53 dead migrants inside, near San Antonio, Texas, June 29, 2022. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without...

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