Migrant deaths on Texas train mark latest border incident in string of recent tragedies: 'Heartbroken'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Those deaths came after a FY 2022 in which there were 856 migrant deaths at the southern border - the highest and deadliest on record.
39% : Border Patrol had been informed and stopped the car two to three miles east of Knippa, Texas.
39% : The latest deaths come just weeks before Title 42, which allows for the rapid expulsion of illegal migrants at the southern border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to expire on May 11 along with the public health emergency.
36% : The deaths of two migrants in a train car in a small Texas town in Uvalde County marks the latest tragedy to hit the southern border amid a historic migrant crisis - a crisis being facilitated by human smugglers, who will often put migrants in deadly situations.
36% : We take the safety of all individuals seriously and work tirelessly with law enforcement partners to detect illegal items and people riding inside or on our rail cars.
34% : Republicans have blamed the Biden administration for its policies that they say have encouraged migrants to surge to the southern border - specifically its moves to reduce interior enforcement and release more migrants into the interior.

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