The hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants expected to rush the U.S.-Mexico border this year will face over one million cases of rape, assault, murder, and kidnapping during their journey, according to a troubling new analysis.

The report on “predation and victimization of undocumented migrants” from Princeton Policy Advisors, provided to Secrets, gave a grim prediction of crimes the migrants will face. It said that the immigrants will be victimized an average of 1.4 times this year.





The startling numbers include:



2,200 deaths.

180,000 rapes or coerced sex.

138,000 assaults.

81,000 cases of drug smuggling.

27,000 cases of human smuggling.

“In all, we estimate economic migrants will suffer 1.1 million traumatic or adverse events trying to reach the U.S. in 2018. This represents a predation rate of 144 percent. That is, those 711,000 migrants attempting to cross illegally into the U.S. this year will suffer on average 1.4 adverse events during the journey,” said the report from the group that studies immigration and promotes conservative immigration reform.

It added that in a typical case, illegal immigrants “are likely to be detained by U.S. Border Patrol and commonly suffer another adverse event like rape or robbery.”

Author Steven Kopits wrote, “These statistics speak to a global scale humanitarian crisis on our borders, second only to the chaos engulfing Venezuela in our hemisphere.”

Many of the “adverse events” the immigrants will likely face will be arrest in Mexico or the U.S.

“Between the Mexican police and U.S. Border Patrol, nearly three-quarters of undocumented migrants will be detained at some point. This represents about half of all adverse events suffered by migrants,” he wrote.