The Border Patrol counted 557 migrant deaths along the southern border over the past year, shattering the previous record and putting a body count on the ongoing illegal immigrant surge.
"The simple fact is when you're dealing with as many people as we're currently dealing with, you're going to have more deaths, you're going to have more rescues," said Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council.
The 557 deaths easily topped the record year of 2005, when agents counted 492 deaths.
In fiscal 2020, just 247 deaths were tallied, and in 2019, during the previous migrant surge, 300 deaths were recorded.
Over the weekend, the Border Patrol announced the death of a woman who drowned while trying to swim around the border barrier that stretches into the Pacific Ocean in San Diego.
The Washington Times database of smuggling cases shows a typical going rate of $1,000 per illegal immigrant smuggled from the border deeper into the U.S. Short of solving the border surge, there is probably not much the government can do to solve drowning deaths.
The Department of Homeland Security has invested in rescue beacons and surged its own medical response teams to try to cut the number of deaths from exposure or severe illnesses in those coming across the border.
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