Deadly Migrant Shipwreck off Mauritania Exposes Failures in Global and U.S. Border Security

The grim count of lives lost continues to rise following the tragic sinking of a migrant vessel off the coast of Mauritania last Thursday. Authorities have now retrieved seventy bodies from a journey that began in Gambia and aimed for Spain’s Canary Islands—a route fraught with peril and emblematic of a much larger global migration crisis. Why is this Tragedy Not Just a Distant Problem? While this disaster unfolded thousands of miles from American shores, its implications strike close to home. The so-called ‘Atlantic route’ remains one of the deadliest paths for migrants fleeing poverty and instability across Africa. The...