Twenty-nine migrants were killed and 11 others were rescued after their boats sank off the coast of Tunisia while trying to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.
National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd says ‘more deaths’ will occur if the U.S. does not get the Southwest border ‘under control’ through policy changes.while heading to Italy, officials said. who died while trying to make the perilous journey crossing the Mediterranean Sea were mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. Coast Guard
also recovered eight bodies on Sunday night and rescued 11 survivors aboard a boat that went down. Two more bodies were recovered in the waters off the Tunisian port of Sfax. FILE: Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit in a makeshift boat that was being used to clandestinely make its way towards the Italian coast.
It remains unclear whether there were more people aboard the vessels that sank. A Tunisian NGO that tracks migration issues said five boats are believed to have foundered in the past two days off Sfax and that 67 people remain unaccounted for.
U.N. data shows that around 12,000 migrants who reached Italy this year set sail from Tunisian, a nearly 90% jump from the same period in 2022. Statistics from the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights show that Tunisia’s Coast Guard prevented more than 14,000 migrants from setting off in boats during the first three months of this year, compared with nearly 3,000 during the same period last year.
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