- The deaths occurred amid record migrant encounters at the southern border, roughly 2.3 million in fiscal 2022, which ended Sept. 30.
- The fiscal 2022 death toll of 853 compares to 546 over the previous fiscal year, according to internal Border Patrol data.
- The number of illegal border-crossers who died in fiscal 2022 could be higher, considering that in April a government watchdog reported that Border Patrol didn’t gather and record “complete data on migrant deaths.”
