According to US Customs and Border Protection, a spike in migration from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua in September increased the number of unlawful crossings to the highest level ever seen in a fiscal year.
The year-end figures show the relative strength of the US economy, the deteriorating political and economic conditions in other nations, and the inconsistent application of Trump-era asylum rules.
In September, the third-highest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, migrants were apprehended 227,547 times along the US-Mexico border. It was up 18. 5% from 192,001 times in September 2021 and up 11.5% from 204,087 times in August.
In the fiscal year that ended September 30, migrants were stopped 2. 38 million times, up 37% from 1. 73 million times the year before, according to figures released late Friday night.
In August, the annual total went above 2 million for the first time, and it is already more than twice as high as it was in 2019 under Donald Trump’s administration.
Nearly 78,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua were stopped in September, compared to about 58,000 from Mexico and three countries of northern Central America that have historically accounted for most of the flow.
The extraordinary geographic shift is at least partially attributable to Title 42, a public health regulation that suspends rights to seek asylum under domestic and international law in order to stop the spread of Covid-19.
The US is unable to deport immigrants to Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua due to fragile diplomatic relations. In order to prosecute their immigration cases, they are consequently generally released in the United States.
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Since it started in March 2020, it has been experienced by 4 million people, but disproportionately by migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
According to reports released on Friday by US and Mexican officials, the number of Venezuelans migrating to the US has decreased by 80% since October 12, when the US started sending Venezuelans back to Mexico under Title 42.
The Biden administration also promised to allow up to 24,000 Venezuelans on humanitarian parole provided they applied online, had a sponsor for financial support, and entered the US through an airport, much like the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have immigrated since Russia invaded their nation.
Although this preliminary information is not included in the September report, CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus stated that it “confirms what we’ve said all along: When there is a lawful and orderly way to enter the country, people will be less likely to put their lives in the hands of smugglers and try to cross the border unlawfully.”
Despite the administration’s attempt to terminate the public health authority in May, which was unsuccessful due to a federal judge’s intervention, the expansion of Title 42 enabling Venezuelans to be deported to Mexico nonetheless occurred.
Venezuelans represented the second-largest nationality at the border after Mexicans for the second straight month, being stopped 33,804 times in September, up 33% from 25,361 times in August.
In September, 26,178 Cubans were stopped at the border, up 37% from 19,060 in August. Cubans are taking part in the greatest exodus from the Caribbean island to the United States since 1980.
In September, Nicaraguans were stopped 18,199 times, up from 7,298 in August.
The report is the last monthly reading of migration flows before US midterm elections, an issue that many Republicans have emphasised in campaigns to capture control of the House and Senate.
In response to the figures, Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee issued the remark, “You’ve got to be kidding.
Unauthorized entry points into the US from Mexico reach annual highs
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