#migrant-deaths

#migrant-deaths

The International Organization for Migration laments one of the deadliest starts to a year since record keeping began, with more than 180 people feared dead or missing in shipwrecks across the Mediterranean over the past 10 days.

A child is believed to have died while trying to cross the Channel in a small boat, according to French reports. The body of the teenager, who was believed to have fallen from a dinghy, was discovered on a beach in northern France on Sunday. The death follows those of three other people on Saturday who were trying to reach the UK two Somali women who were reportedly crushed in a boat,

Marie Blaise, a 44-year-old Haitian woman, died in a Florida immigration detention center, highlighting ongoing mortality issues in U.S. immigration detention.