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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 24, 2022, 04:04:08 pm

Title: Migration, country by country, at the U.S.-Mexico border
Post by: rangerrebew on November 24, 2022, 04:04:08 pm
AP Photo/Eric Gay 23 NOV 2022 | NEWS
Migration, country by country, at the U.S.-Mexico border
by  Adam Isacson

The COVID pandemic, and related U.S. efforts to curtail access to asylum, have caused patterns of migration at the U.S.-Mexico border to fluctuate in often sharp and unpredictable ways. The two graphics below indicate the top countries of citizenship of migrants encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal years 2020-2022 and in the past three full months (August-October).

Scroll below the graphics for a brief narrative about migration from each country.

https://www.wola.org/2022/11/migration-country-by-country-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/