the Mexican population emigrating to the United States in search of better opportunities increased 8% so far this fiscal year in the American Union (October-February), with respect to the same period last year.
For experts, the increase in the atur, the violence and the expectation that entry into the United States will be allowed are among the main reasons that have increased the emigration towards this nation.
Between October 2020 (which began the fiscal year in the United States) and February 2021, the migration authorities of this country have arrested 215 thousand 287 Mexicans who entered irregularly. According to the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, For the acronym in English), in this period have been arrested each month more than 40 thousand Mexicans on average who sought to enter the United States illegally.
In October 2020, 46,801 Mexicans were arrested and in some cases expelled (deportees).
There are different ways in which people travel and their classification by the CBP: Accompanied minors, family, single adults and single children.
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December is the month in which one was registered descent of Mexicans seeking to arrive in the United States and remain there irregularly, with 39,394 arrests. During the 28 days he had last February, 44,990 Mexicans were detained on the American border.
So far in the first five months of the fiscal year, 396,000 958 people have been arrested in the United States, and the group Mexicans is the largest, with 215 thousand 287.
the US immigration authority has arrested five thousand 514 Salvadorans; 19 thousand 06 Guatemalans; 19 thousand 917 Hondurans and 11 thousand 905 of other nationalities. the Department of Homeland Securityl (DHS) The United States recognizes that the situation on its southern border is difficult.
The owner of this agency, Alejandro Mayorkas, Released a statement saying that the main reasons why migration has increased are poverty, violence and corruption: “The situation on the southern border is difficult, we work day and night to fix it, this is our work, ”he explained.
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Bernardo Mendez Lugo, Retired diplomat, consultant at migration international and Executive Director of the America Without Walls Foundation, Considered that the reasons why migration has grown in the United States are multifactorial, but in essence, the false expectation that the president should be considered Joe Biden it will allow them to cross the border.
“This expectation is not based on real policies and the general impoverishment of the population due to the recessionary impact of the Covid pandemic 19 and in particular in rural and indigenous regions, as well as on the outskirts of large cities, it drives migration from the time Biden came to power, ”he noted.
Forced expulsion, he added, is not only due to poverty and unemployment, in some regions it affects the violence of organized crime and in some cases interethnic aggressions such as Chiapas, Oaxaca and Michoacán. These situations drive the forced displacements to large cities.
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Méndez Lugo pointed out that another migration factor is climate change and the natural disasters that are causing migration and forced displacement in Mexico and Central America.
“A key impetus for migration is the expectation that the beneficiaries of the migratory regularization which has been offered by President Biden.
“Actually those who arrive irregularly in the United States today will be rejected at the border and deportees He Removed, No nationality will benefit except in rare cases of asylum or asylum seekers, ”the expert said.
Carlos Arango, leader of the movement front National of Migrants, Agreed that one of the main causes of the increase in emigration is violence: “People can no longer live in these disastrous conditions, violence, for many years, has been a factor of displacement for the most marginalized, “he said THE UNIVERSAL.
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However, with the advent of the Covid-19, the economy began to fall into recession and people sought to get ahead, feeding their families.
the doctor Thomas Milton Muñoz, Director of the Journal of International Relations of the ONE, Stressed that migration figures to the United States are not new; however, new factors are observed that generate the current displacement.
First, he explained, there is the crisis that was generated in different countries after the emergence of the Covid19. He added that in countries like Honduras, for example, in 2020 there were two hurricanes that they generated disasters.
“In addition, the structural causes that generate migration have not been addressed,” he said.