MIAMI — The number of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans arrested at the U. S. -Mexico border soared in August as migrants from Mexico and their home countries were arrested less frequently, the government said Monday.
The U. S. government The U. S. department of Homeland Security arrested migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua about 56,000 times last month, up from 49,826 times in July and 23,141 times in August 2021, according to administration officials.
At the same time, fewer migrants have been arrested from Mexico and the Central American “Northern Triangle” countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras for the third month in a row.
Overall, migrants were arrested about 203,000 times. They arrested 199,976 times at the U. S. border. U. S. with Mexico in July and 213,593 times in August 2021.
The growing number of other people from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua is the latest sign of an immediate shift in migration flows as the U. S. government continues to move forward. The U. S. deals with unusually giant flows.
While no single explanation for why can be identified, it’s incredibly complicated for the U. S. The U. S. government deports immigrants from those countries under a pandemic-era rule known as Title 42, which U. S. officials invoke to deny the possibility of applying for asylum on the grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19. relations with the 3 countries are very strained, so it is complicated, if impossible, to send them home.
Mexico will settle for migrants deported under Title 42 if they are from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, in addition to Mexico. Although the rule applies to all nationalities in theory, other people from those 4 countries are the maximum affected.
Biden’s management has relied on other countries in the Americas for more people to flee their homes, adding Mexico, Costa Rica, home to many Nicaraguans, and Colombia, which has hosted millions of Venezuelans in recent years.
Venezuelan migration plummeted earlier this year after Mexico imposed restrictions on air travel, but it has surged in recent months as more people cross the notoriously damaging direction of Panama’s Darien Gap.
In July, Venezuelans were arrested 17,651 times at the U. S. -Mexico border, most of them in and around Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas.
Reminders of his presence occupy the front page of newspapers. The roughly 50 migrants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis brought to the luxurious island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts were all Venezuelans, as were five of the six bodies the U. S. government had brought to the luxury island of Martha’s Vineyard. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security discovered drownings in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass over Labor Day weekend. The 6 of Nicaragua.
Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba go through repressive regimes.