300,000 Migrants Have Entered Mexico Bound for the US in 2019, Including From Africa, Asia
By Janita Kan
April 25, 2019 Updated: April 26, 2019
About 300,000 migrants from around the globe entered Mexico with the intention of illegally crossing into the United States in the first three months of 2019, according to Mexican officials.
The country’s Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero said at a press conference on April 23 that Mexico had seen an increase in migrants from Honduras and a smaller number from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Cuba along with African and Asian nations, reported local news website Mexico News Daily.
Sánchez Cordero described this migration flow as “unprecedented and unusual†and added that “six caravanas madrecitas†or little mother caravans that have around 2,000 people in each entering Mexico in recent months.
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