At least 70 Nicaraguan migrants have lost their lives due to different circumstances in the United States so far in 2023one of them in the custody of the US immigration service, reported the newspaper La Prensa de Nicaragua.
Of those 70 fatalities, 13 Nicaraguan migrants, including two minors, have died so far in August, almost one per dayindicated that medium, the oldest in Nicaragua, which published a photograph of each of the 13 deceased this month.
“In the last week, at least five Nicaraguans have lost their lives in different states of the North American country”according to the count carried out by La Prensa with data from the organization Texas Nicaraguan Community (TNC), reports on social networks and international media.
Most of the Nicaraguans had come to the United States in search of better job opportunities, according to the outlet.
Among the main causes of death of Nicaraguan migrants in the North American country are traffic accidents, heart attacks and suicides.according to La Prensa.
Other causes of death are femicides, murders, heat stroke, submersion and causes not yet clarifieds, according to the report.
June was the month in which the most Nicaraguan migrants died in the United States, with 19.
On June 23, a 42-year-old man who was in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement died in a Louisiana hospital. (ICE).
He was in ICE custody after being detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents when he entered the United States illegally on April 17, 2022. Since that date, he has been in deportation proceedings.
Doctors reported the preliminary cause of death as cardiac arrest.
A total of 217,052 Nicaraguans were detained between January 1 and December 31, 2022 at the southern border of the United States.according to CBP data.
Since the crisis broke out in Nicaragua in April 2018 at least 344,000 Nicaraguans have been intercepted at the southern border of the United Statesdetails the CBP.
The crisis that Nicaragua has been going through since then has caused the largest exodus in its history, 9% of its population, even higher than in the 1980s, when a civil war broke out in the country that left tens of thousands dead, according to the report “Situation of Nicaraguans forcibly displaced”, prepared by the Human Rights Collective Nicaragua Nunca Más.
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