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Each year there are several hundred Immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border. (United States Government Accounting Office. GAO-06-770, August 2006.) Death by exposure occurs in the deserts of Southwestern United States during the hot summer season. (
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Allegations have been made that thousands of illegal immigrants attempting to reach Europe have died since 1986.
In order to arrive to the sea, the dangerous passage of the Sahara is necessary. People have crossed it on trucks and off-road vehicles along the tracks between Sudan, Chad, Niger and Mali one one side and Libya and Algeria on the other. On this passage at least 1,069 people have died since 1996. The Libyan, Algerian and Morocan Governments have been accused of abandoning hundreds of migrants in open desert border areas.
Abuse has been reported of migrants in Libya. There are not any official data, but in 2006 Human Rights Watch and AFVIC accused Tripoli of arbitrary arrests, beatings and tortures in the migrant detention centers, In September 2000 in Zawiyah, in northwest Libya, at least 560 foreigners were killed in racist attacks.
247 stowaways in trucks were found dead in Albania, France, Germany, Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Hungary.
There are still minefields along the Evros river between the Greece-Turkey border.
Additionally, 51 people drowned crossing rivers delimiting the frontier between Croatia and Bosnia; Turkey and Greece; Slovakia and Austria; and Slovenia and Italy. Forty-one people froze to death travelling over the icy mountains at the border between Turkey, Greece and Slovakia; 20 people died under the trains in the Channel tunnel trying to reach England; 33 people were shot dead by Spanish and Moroccan police or injured along the border fence of Ceuta and Melilla Spanish enclaves in Morocco; 11 people burnt when a deportation center in the Netherlands caught fire; and eight men were found dead hidden in the undercarriages of planes.
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