The throngs of migrants crossing the southern border of the United States include hundreds of thousands of people from as far away as China, India and Africa, recent federal government statistics show.
Arrests of migrants from countries including Senegal, Mauritania, China and India who entered through Mexico tripled to 214,000 during the fiscal year that ended in September, from 70,000 in the previous fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. Joined.
In fiscal year 2021, there were fewer than 19,000 “encounters” with immigrants from Asia and Africa, according to CBP statistics.
Overall, in fiscal year 2023, CBP counted nearly 2.48 million encounters at the southern border, up 4% from 2.39 million the previous year.
“The increase in migration from Asia and Africa is notable,” Enrique Lucero, head of the migrant support unit for the Tijuana city government, across from San Diego, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “Today we deal with 120 nationalities and 60 different languages.”
It was the second year in a row that “encounters” along the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico exceeded two million, according to CBP statistics. The majority of migrants continue to be from Latin America and the Caribbean.
More than 200,000 immigrants from as far away as China, India and Africa crossed the border in the fiscal year that ended in September, according to statistics compiled by Customs and Border Protection. Go Nakamura for New York Post
The new groups, known as “extracontinental,” are posing a challenge to federal authorities because deporting immigrants to Asian and African countries is time-consuming and expensive, according to the outlet.
“That puts a lot of pressure on our operations because we simply don’t have long-standing ties or agreements with many countries to facilitate quick deportations,” a U.S. government official told the newspaper. “We are actively working on that.”
Migrants from China used a motorized boat to cross the Rio Grande into Texas earlier this year.REUTERS
In Mexico, authorities reported that the number of immigrants from Asia and Africa quadrupled this year, the Journal reported. Travelers said they use TikTok and Facebook to share information and videos of their routes, while others use details they find online to start their own trips.
Chinese immigrants typically arrive at the U.S. southern border after flying to Brazil, Ecuador or Nicaragua, which have limited visa requirements for some nationalities.
They then travel by bus or car to hotels or houses where the smugglers put them up. Many wear disposable bracelets like those worn at resorts, with details naming the groups that coordinated their travel, Mexican authorities told the Journal.
Migrants negotiating a concertina wire fence attempted to cross the border from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez earlier this month. Go Nakamura for the New York Post
Immigrants from India are reportedly most frequently flying to Mexico City from Europe or crossing the border through Canada.
CBP data shows there were 189,402 encounters at the northern border in the fiscal year that ended in September, a 73 percent increase from 109,535 the previous year and a nearly seven-fold increase from two years ago. .
American and Mexican authorities are also seeing increasing numbers of Russians fleeing their homes arriving: around 12,500 since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, compared to 509 the year before the war.
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