Reuters.- In the early hours of Friday, May 6, Gerardo Ávila and five other migrants climbed the US border wall from a Mexican highway, located about half a kilometer west of the Otay Mesa port of entry in San Diego.Ávila was deported to Mexico weeks ago after three decades of living in the United States, so he was trying to return to his family to celebrate Mother's Day with them, his relatives narrated.As he climbed the towering 16-foot-high wall, the bright lights of a border patrol vehicle flashed in that direction, illuminating the misty night sky.The agents heard a scream and saw Ávila fall, according to a statement from the agency where he identified himself as a "male citizen of Mexico."Ávila, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene, while other migrants were taken to hospital.His death adds to the surge in cases along the US-Mexico border, which broke records last year.In a segment that stretches from the highways of San Antonio, Texas, where 53 migrants died last month in the suffocating bed of a trailer, to the Rio Grande River, the heat of the Arizona desert and the wall that former President Donald Trump touted as "inescalable," 1,000 deaths have occurred since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.Last year was the deadliest for migrants who crossed the border, with 728 recorded deaths, according to data from the United Nations, which has documented these cases since 2014. The UN recorded 340 more deaths this year, which is at the same rate. than the grim record of 2021.In addition: 'Stay in Mexico' has impacted 75,000 migrants at the borderIn Arizona, deaths last year were the highest in four decades, according to local coroners.In San Diego, Scripps Mercy hospital reported a roughly fivefold increase in wall-related injuries after Trump built it and sent it up, data shared with Reuters shows.The Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for its acronym in English) of the United States acknowledged in a statement an "increase in the number of deaths" and blamed human traffickers for not having "consideration for human lives" when leaving to migrants in remote and dangerous areas.Following congressional mandates, CBP last year changed the way it documents migrant deaths along the border to include only those who die in custody, during arrests or when officers were nearby.The agency told Reuters there were 151 "CBP-related" deaths in fiscal year 2021, a number not previously reported.Bodies discovered by CBP or others are not currently included in the agency's data.Avila's death, which is being investigated by local and federal authorities, would likely be counted under the new methodology because CBP agents were present when he died.The main fence from which Ávila fell is double the height, about 5.5 meters bequeathed by the Trump era, whose campaign cry for the presidency in 2016 was “build the wall.”A secondary fence of 9 meters was built in that same section.One morning in May, Vishal Bansal, chief of trauma surgery at Scripps Mercy, and his team saw three borderline patients, two new arrivals with lower extremity fractures, one with a head injury, unresponsive for weeks and dying. gave him a 50/50 chance of survival.“We have seen a huge increase in the number of patients from the end of 2021 to now,” Bansal said.While the hospital treats migrants injured at sea or in crashes after high-speed chases with border patrol, most are injured "falling off the border wall," he said.The four injured in the same incident when Avila died were rushed to Scripps Mercy, which has recorded 209 border wall falls between 2019 and 2021, up from 43 documented in the previous three years, according to data shared with Reuters.He also reads: Mexico confirms 55 cases of monkeypox and expands preventive measuresMarcos Ortiz, a Mexican migrant, died with the dream of lifting his family out of poverty once he managed to climb the border wall to reach the United States."I begged him not to go but he told me he wanted to make me my little house, get the family out of poverty but he came back dead," said Guadalupe Guadalajara, Ortiz's wife, crying.Sick, Guadalupe was left with three children and a $2,000 debt that she had to come up with to cover the full cost of repatriating the body of her 41-year-old husband in February.Gerardo Ávila also took a lot of risk by climbing the wall, but unlike Marcos Ortiz, he just wanted to go home to his family.Avila first came to the United States as a teenager in 1990, according to court records, "via the hills."He, his mother and nine of his brothers settled in the country.He worked in construction and made a life in Perris, California, with his wife and five stepchildren, according to his sister, Elisa Sandoval.Ávila spent years fighting to stay in the country, before losing his last appeal last year.In immigration court, prosecutors from Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave him a 2006 conviction for drunk driving and hit-and-run with injuries as a reason why his clemency application should be denied.Avila told the court that he checked out the driver he rear-ended and gave him his insurance information before continuing.However, he was arrested shortly after leaving the scene, records show, and sentenced to 20 days in jail and three years on probation.On March 16 of this year, Avila was arrested by a Border Patrol criminal detection team at a Home Depot in Perris and deported through the San Ysidro port of entry that same day."He was desperate to return," his sister Sandoval said.Instead, he was buried in California on his 48th birthday.“I think the wall is nonsense.Trump is to blame for all these deaths,” he added.When asked about the wall's role in injuries and deaths, a Trump spokesman blamed Biden's policies for "chaos" at the southern border.One of Trump's signature policies that Biden has so far not overturned allows border agents to expressly expel migrants across the border into Mexico.An unintended consequence: many simply cross over and over again, often making increasingly risky decisions to avoid detection.Brothers Mariano, 32, and Begai Santiago, 33, are from a small town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where most speak the indigenous Chinantec language, on their way to Atlanta, Georgia, in search of of work.Twice they were turned away by US officials, but they kept trying to cross the border."He told me they were going to try one last time, the third time," Mariano's wife, Estrella Cuevas, told Reuters.The third time they crossed undetected and then took a tractor-trailer packed with dozens of other migrants headed for San Antonio.Mariano died, one of 53 victims of the June 27 Texas trailer tragedy, the deadliest human trafficking incident in recent US history.Begai survived to recover at a San Antonio hospital.The brothers were identified in part because US authorities had records of their previous crossings.Since 2020, when the so-called Title 42 was implemented at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the Trump era, some 2 million migrants have been immediately expelled to their nations or to Mexican territory.Francisco Garduño, director of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM), said Mexican migrants now try to cross an average of four times, and some more than a dozen times.Do you already have us on Facebook?Give us like and receive the best informationChina authorized the use of Azvudine 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