Four indicted in smuggling incident that killed 53 migrants in Texas

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66% : The two American defendants were indicted on an array of charges for conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants resulting in death and serious bodily injury.
64% : Additionally, CBP revealed the number of rescues across the southern border to date for 2022 also outpaces the number recorded in 2021.
58% : U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is on pace to record more than 2 million arrests this year as hundreds of thousands of migrants seek to enter the U.S. travel from South and Central America up through Mexico.
57% : Since October, Border Patrol has performed 14,278 search-and-rescue missions in a seven-month period through May.
50% :Migrant crossing levels have been on the rise since Biden took office, with Border Patrol having tallied a record 1.73 million arrests at the border in 2021.
48% : The number of unique individuals attempted to cross in May was 177,793; 25 percent of those stopped by agents had attempted to cross at least once before in the prior 12 months, according to CBP.
47% : CBP revealed the number of rescues across the southern border to date for 2022 also outpaces the number recorded in 2021Border agents attribute the higher-than-usual number of repeat crossings in May due to the fact that migrants expelled under Title 42, a pandemic-era restriction currently tied up in court, face no legal repercussions if they try to cross again.
41% : Death incidents at the southern border more than doubled last year, compared to the numbers recorded in previous years.
40% : The alleged driver, Homero Zamorano Jr., 46, of Pasadena, Texas, and his co-defendant, Christian Martinez, 28, of Palestine, Texas, could face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted in the deadliest human-smuggling incident in U.S. history, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas.
36% : How Joe Biden has presided over RECORD levels of migration, deaths and rescues at the southern borderMigrant crossings, rescues and deaths along the southern border have hit record levels under the leadership of President Joe Biden.
30% : CBP has not published a death tally for 2022 but recorded data shows at least 87 migrants have died while trying to come into the U.S.Death incidents at the southern border more than doubled last year, compared to the numbers recorded in previous years

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