Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Issue #930 Story of the Week: Published: TUESDAY March 12, 2024: ‘Border in Chaos’ by ZUMA Press award winning photo-journalist David Peinado: Nearly 9,000 people attempting to reach the US from the south have been recorded missing or dead in the Americas in the past 10 years, according to the Missing Migrants Project, and the vast majority of recorded fatalities 5,145, occur at the US-Mexico border crossing. In the last three years, the number of people attempting to cross the US’s southern border into the country has risen to unprecedented levels. In December 2023, border patrol recorded 302,000 encounters, a new high, with the monthly average from 2013 to 2019 was 39,000. The collapse of Venezuela, political instability in Haiti, violence in Ecuador, a crackdown in Nicaragua, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, repression in China and other conflicts have fueled a historic shift in migration patterns. Welcome to ‘Border in Chaos’
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