- Nearly half the people who crossed into the USA in August were from three countries.
- According to a US official, “Failing communist regimes are driving a wave of migration in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.”
- A total of just over 158,000 people met southwest border officials during August.
Fivety migrants were flown from Texas. Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts), last week by Florida Governor. Ron DeSantis.
Many of those who were lured in recent years are still attracted. Under what they claimed were false pretensesAccording to immigration lawyers, this is part of a growing trend in migration to America.
According to US Customers and border Protection statistics released Monday, almost half of the migrants that crossed into the US from the southwest came from three countries with authoritarian regimes that have been criticized both by Republicans and Democrats.
CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus, stated in that the “failing communist governments in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba are driving an unprecedented wave of migration across Western Hemisphere,” CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus. A statement.
According to CBP, more than 55,000 people came from these three, ostensibly socialist, countries at the southwest border in August. CBP reports that this compares with just over 57,000 people who are from Mexico and other Central America countries, like El Salvador and Honduras.
Over 203,000 people encountered southwest border officials last month, an increase of 1.7% from July.
Many of the people who crossed the border tried to do it before, but were expelled during the past 12 months. Title 42The Trump-era public order for health that had closed the border just before the outbreak. Biden’s administration attempted to reverse the emergency regulation but was thwarted by Texas and other Republican states.
Aaron Reichlin Melnick, policy director of the American Immigration Council, stated in a statement that it was “absolutely unprecedented”. Post on TwitterResponding to the news. He said that almost half of the migrants encountered were from Nicaragua or South America. This was a “staggering” change.
Venezuelans have been the largest group of asylum-seekers in the United States in recent years. This is a result of economic mismanagement and US sanctions against Venezuela’s antidemocratic government.
Nicaragua used to only account for a small percentage of the migrants who came to the US, despite it being the second most poor country in Western Hemisphere. The country has been more restrictive under President Daniel Ortega. He brutally repressed mass anti-austerity protests and killed over 300 people in 2018.
Trump’s administration has signed an agreement with Nicaragua to speed up deportation of Nicaraguan citizens. The agreement is still in effect, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite US sanctions following Nicaragua’s deportation. Election 2021 sham.
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