The US border patrol apprehended 197,039 Central American migrants between October 2021 and September 2022, a number that compared to apprehensions for fiscal year 2021 reflects a 35% decrease.
The data corresponds to the Office of Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP, for its acronym in English) and indicates that the apprehensions were made under Title 8, an immigration measure that determines the inadmissibility of migrants who do not comply with the immigration requirements of the North American country.
One of the demographic aspects highlighted by CBP is that this year there were fewer families traveling to the US border in search of the “American dream.”
From 175,263 Central American families detained in 2021, this year it dropped to 58,546. A decrease that coincides with the drop in arrests reflected in global data. The opposite is the case with adults and unaccompanied minors whose arrests increased slightly.
Most Central American migrants are from Honduras
Of the total number of Central American migrants apprehended at the southern border of the United States, the majority come from Honduras.
Since 2018, Honduran emigrants have been characterized by lead massive caravans toward the southern US border.
the last of the caravans checked in at the end of october when some 250 Honduran migrants left at a time when thousands of Venezuelans cross the region in search of the same objective.
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