More Die Trying to Cross Mexican Border than died at Berlin Wall

   Three hundred people a year die trying to cross the Mexican border, notes Sven Haynes, who is on the immigration sanctuary steering committee at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City.
   "That's more people than died trying to cross the Berlin Wall," says Haynes, who himself is an immigrant from Germany, and who has therefore had cause to reflect on the numbers from the two locations.
   I word search, and find he is right. Wikipedia says 294 people died trying to cross from Mexico in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2017. And, how many people died trying to escape East Germany along the Berlin Wall? Well, the wall was in effect from 1961 to 1989 and during all those years, only an estimated 239 died.