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Rescue workers in Niger say they have found the bodies of 92 people who died of thirst after their vehicles broke down as they tried to cross the Sahara.

Rescue worker Almoustapha Alhacen said the corpses were in a severe state of decomposition and had been partly eaten, probably by jackals.

Those found are thought to be migrant workers and their families. Most were women and children.

Niger lies on a major migrant route between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24753100
 
Arizona Desert Swallows Migrants on Riskier Paths

"There were 463 deaths in the past fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30 — the equivalent of about five migrants dying every four days, according to an analysis by the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group. In the time federal statistics have been compiled, only 2005 had more deaths, and in that year, there were more than three times as many apprehensions.

As security at the border has tightened, pushing migrants to seek more remote and dangerous routes, the largest number of the deaths last year occurred along the punishing stretch of desert that spans the southernmost tip of the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, the busiest along the border.

The only riskier stretch is the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, where, from Oct. 1 to April 30, law enforcement officers or ranchers found the bodies of 77 immigrants, or more than half the number of bodies recovered there in all of the past fiscal year: 150."

you don't have to go to Africa to find migrants dying in the desert.
 
Maybe this isn't about migrants dying in the desert, maybe this is about the country's name, Niger, being confused with another word by BM.
 
Crashk said:
Arizona Desert Swallows Migrants on Riskier Paths "There were 463 deaths in the past fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30 — the equivalent of about five migrants dying every four days, according to an analysis by the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group. In the time federal statistics have been compiled, only 2005 had more deaths, and in that year, there were more than three times as many apprehensions. As security at the border has tightened, pushing migrants to seek more remote and dangerous routes, the largest number of the deaths last year occurred along the punishing stretch of desert that spans the southernmost tip of the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, the busiest along the border. The only riskier stretch is the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, where, from Oct. 1 to April 30, law enforcement officers or ranchers found the bodies of 77 immigrants, or more than half the number of bodies recovered there in all of the past fiscal year: 150." you don't have to go to Africa to find migrants dying in the desert.
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That is awful. I am shocked and ashamed that America hasn't adopted a policy to eliminate these needless, tragic deaths.

What has Obama done about this humanitarian tragedy on our southern border?
 
Big money said:
Still no compassion for the deaths of 92 Africans?
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I'm concerned about another item you chose to call out in your OP (rather than how awful the deaths were...you seemed to avoid that)....the fact that jackals were feeding on their flesh, possibly rotting flesh.

Distemper has been decimating African canines for years....I hope this doesnt contribute to any jackal deaths.
 
Crashk said:
Arizona Desert Swallows Migrants on Riskier Paths

"There were 463 deaths in the past fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30 — the equivalent of about five migrants dying every four days, according to an analysis by the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights group. In the time federal statistics have been compiled, only 2005 had more deaths, and in that year, there were more than three times as many apprehensions.

As security at the border has tightened, pushing migrants to seek more remote and dangerous routes, the largest number of the deaths last year occurred along the punishing stretch of desert that spans the southernmost tip of the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector, the busiest along the border.

The only riskier stretch is the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, where, from Oct. 1 to April 30, law enforcement officers or ranchers found the bodies of 77 immigrants, or more than half the number of bodies recovered there in all of the past fiscal year: 150."

you don't have to go to Africa to find migrants dying in the desert.
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There happens to be a difference from immigrants and ILLEGAL immigrants.
A hint: it's the word ILLEGAL.
 
Stop hiring illegals and they won't die in the desert trying to get here. Illegal immigration problem solved.
 
Crashk said:
Stop hiring illegals and they won't die in the desert trying to get here. Illegal immigration problem solved.
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Maybe you should tell your fellow lefties that...like Zoë Baird...or Kimba Wood.

BTW, I was moved by your eloquent expression of compassion for the dead Africans...
 
Crashk said:
Stop hiring illegals and they won't die in the desert trying to get here. Illegal immigration problem solved.
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I haven't hired any; but they still keep coming across.

I see you were scared by the word illegal and decided to move the goal posts from the difference between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, to hiring.
 
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