The month of August brought a considerable increase in immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua who crossed the border from Mexico to the United States.
“The failed communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba are fueling a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent surge in encounters on the southwestern border of the United States,” the commissioner of the United States said in a monthly report on Monday. Border Patrol, aka CBP, Chris Magnus.
For the month of August, border patrol officials tracked down 157,921 immigrants, a 2.2% increase in the number of “unique encounters” compared to the previous month.
At least 55,333 of those unique encounters were with immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua, resulting in 35% of all first-timers, a figure that is up 175% from the same date in 2021. .
Magnus argued that this is largely driven “by increased numbers of asylum seekers fleeing authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.”
The number of Cubans arriving through land and sea borders to the US exceeded since July to the largest exoduses from the island in 1980 and 1994, according to CBP figures.
However, the flow of immigrants from Mexico and the well-known Northern Triangle of Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) fell for the third time since last June.
The government entity attributes it to the development of its comprehensive plan to achieve orderly and safe immigration, focused on combating human and drug smuggling, association with entities in the main issuing countries and reducing tension at the border, among others.
At least 73,153 people were processed for removal under Title 42, a measure of protection against disease in the US.
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