The crowds of migrants pouring across the U.S. southern border include hundreds of thousands of people from as far away as China, India and Africa, recent federal government statistics show.
Arrests of migrants from countries such as Senegal, Mauritania, China and India entering via Mexico tripled to 214,000 during the fiscal year that ended in September, from 70,000 in the prior fiscal year, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.
In fiscal 2021, there were less than 19,000 migrant “encounters” from Asia and Africa, according to CBP statistics.
Overall, in fiscal 2023, CBP counted nearly 2.48 million encounters at the southern border, up 4% from 2.39 million the previous year.
“The increase in migration from Asia and Africa is remarkable,” said Enrique Lucero, head of the migrant support unit of the Tijuana city government, across from San Diego in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “These days, we are dealing with 120 nationalities and 60 different languages.”
It was the second consecutive year “encounters” along the length of the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico topped two million, according to CBP statistics. Most of the migrants continue to be from Latin America and the Caribbean.
The new groups, known as “extracontinentals” are posing a challenge to federal authorities because deporting migrants back to Asian and African countries is time-consuming and expensive, according to the outlet.
“That puts a lot of strain on our operations because we just don’t have longstanding ties or agreements in place with many countries in order to facilitate quick removals,” a US government official told the newspaper. “We are actively working on that.”
In Mexico, authorities reported a four-fold increase of migrants from Asia and Africa this year, the Journal reported. Travelers said they use TikTok and Facebook to share information and videos of their routes, while others use the details they find online to launch their own trips.
Chinese migrants typically make their way to the US southern border after flying into Brazil, Ecuador or Nicaragua, which have limited visa requirements for some nationalities.
They then travel by bus or cars to hotels or houses where they are put up by smugglers. Many wear disposable bracelets like those used at resorts, with details naming the groups that coordinated their trip, Mexican authorities told the Journal.
Migrants from India more often fly to Mexico City from Europe, or cross the border through Canada, according to reports.
CBP data shows there were 189,402 encounters at the northern border in the fiscal year that ended in September, a 73 percent leap from the 109,535 the prior year and a nearly sevenfold surge from two years ago.
U.S. and Mexican authorities are also seeing a growing number of Russians arriving as they flee their homes — about 12,500 since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, compared with 509 the year before the war.
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