More than 100 migrants have died from heat this year along the U.S.-Mexico border as the Southwest continues to swelter through record-breaking heat.
at Australian National University who is currently a research consultant in New Zealand,
said the heat would be particularly dangerous to migrants making the crossing, who would likely be unable to cool themselves down as they walked long distances without ready access to water.“The amount of sweat that you have to evaporate to protect yourself from very hot temperatures — over [104 degrees Fahrenheit], for instance — it’s just impossible to protect yourself in these conditions,” he said.
At 102 degrees, “you can get serious illness,” he said, and at 104 or higher, “many people will actually die from the heat.” “Climate change is contributing to the increasing number of days with extremely hot weather, so it’s an extra risk for them,” he said.published in Science found that dehydration and heat stress in migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico were likely to worsen about 34 percent over the next 30 years, resulting in increased deaths.
There were about 219 migrant deaths due to heat at the United States’ southern border in the 2021 fiscal year, which the CBP measures from October 2020 to September 2021, up from about 100 deaths in each of the previous three years,
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