Thousands more Mauritanians are making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media
by: JAKE OFFENHARTZ, PATRICK ORSAGOS and RENATA BRITO, Associated Press
Posted: Aug 21, 2023 / 02:01 PM CDT
Updated: Aug 21, 2023 / 02:01 PM CDT
CINCINNATI (AP) — Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she first learned about the new route to the United States. For Ibrahima Sow, the discovery came on TikTok a few weeks later.
By the time their paths crossed at the tidy one-story brick house in Cincinnati, they had encountered hundreds of other Mauritanians, nearly all of them following a new path surging in popularity among younger migrants from the West African nation, thanks largely to social media.
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“Four months ago, it just went crazy,” said Oumar Ball, who arrived in Cincinnati from Mauritania in 1997 and recently opened his home to Sow, Sall and more than a dozen other new migrants. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing.”
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/thousands-more-mauritanians-are-making-their-way-to-the-us-thanks-to-a-route-spread-on-social-media/
