NEW STUDY BY ADVOCACY GROUPS ALLEGES FEDERAL UNDERREPORTING OF MIGRANT DEATHS
Sam Karas, Big Bend Sentinel, 10 April 2024
FAR WEST TEXAS — On March 18, the nonprofit advocacy and rescue group No Más Muertes (No More Deaths) released a groundbreaking report detailing migrant deaths in Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) El Paso Sector, which spans all of New Mexico, El Paso and Hudspeth County. Data collected by the nonprofit suggests that the rate of migrants dying along the southwest border is skyrocketing — in their findings, No Más Muertes alleges that CBP is underreporting these deaths by as many as four times their actual figures.
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