People from Across the Globe are Catching Flights to Cross the Border
Preston Huennekens
The Biden border crisis rages on with no end in sight. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded 178,622 encounters with illegal aliens in April, up from 78,443 in January when President Biden took office. Most of these illegal aliens hail from the same region of the world - Central America. Particularly, they come from the northern triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
Recently, the share of aliens apprehended from outside of the northern triangle has increased. Alarmingly, many of those apprehended are not even from the Americas.
CBP reports apprehending individuals in greater numbers from outside of Latin America as word spreads throughout the globe that the border is essentially wide open. Aliens from Europe, Asia, and Africa are among those apprehended in greater and growing numbers by CBP. The Washington Examiner reported that even some of the nomadic Roma people of eastern Europe have boarded planes to Central America, determined to cross the border and claim asylum on the basis of discrimination from European governments. Anna Giaritelli, the Washington Examiner reporter, wrote that:
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/presidential-administration/border-security/people-across-globe-catching-flights
