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Migrants are regularly packed into trucks or cars as they make the journey north, and frequently fall prey to violence along the way. In January, the bodies of 19 people, most of them migrants, were found in a charred pickup truck near the U.S. border. Twelve police officers were later arrested in connection with the crime.

At least 3,575 deaths have been documented on the United States-Mexico border since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration, with 650 people killed attempting to cross the U.S. border this year alone — the highest number since the agency began documenting deaths in 2014.

“The rising migrant death toll in the region is highly alarming,” Michele Klein-Solomon, the organization’s regional director for Central, North America and the Caribbean, said in a statement on Wednesday.

At least 750 migrants have been killed trying to cross Mexico since 2014, according to the agency, and thousands more have simply disappeared.

Thursday’s accident occurred one day after the United States relaunched a contentious migrant enforcement program known as Remain in Mexico, which would force asylum seekers to wait across the border while their cases are determined in U.S. courts. The program has been criticized by human rights groups because of the unsafe conditions migrants face in Mexico.

“Under the Remain in Mexico program, the United States and Mexico have knowingly put thousands of asylum seekers’ lives in danger,” Ari Sawyer, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement Thursday.

Raphael Minder contributed reporting.