The deadliest border crossing on Earth just claimed another 500 victims - Vox: The world's deadliest migration route is the one over the Mediterranean to Europe.
"About 20,000 migrants have died crossing the Mediterranean in the last 20 years"
For years, thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia have boated across the Mediterranean in an attempt to enter the European Union — and hundreds of them have died. About 20,000 migrants have died en route over the past twenty years, according to the International Organization for Migration.