The Mexican population emigrating to the United States in search of better opportunities rose 8% so far this fiscal year in the US American Union (October-February), compared to the same period last year.
For experts, the increase is unemployment, the violence and the expectation that entry into the United States will be allowed are some of the main reasons behind the emigration to that nation.
Between October 2020 (which began the fiscal year in the United States) and February 2021, the migration authorities from that country 215 thousand 287 Mexicans detained who entered illegally. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP, for the abbreviation in English), an average of more than 40,000 Mexicans per month were arrested during that period attempting to enter the United States illegally.
In October 2020, 46,801 Mexicans were detained and in some cases expelled (deported
The modes in which people travel and their classification by the CBP: accompanied minors, as a family, adults alone and minors alone.
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December is the month in which a descent from Mexicans trying to reach the United States and staying there irregularly, with 39,394 arrests. During the 28 days of February last year, 44,999 Mexicans were detained at the US border.
So far, 396,958 people have been arrested in the first five months of the fiscal year in the United States, and the group Mexicans It is the largest with 215,287.
The US Immigration Authority it has detained 5,000 514 Salvadorans; 19 thousand 06 Guatemalans; 19,917 Hondurans and 11,905 of other nationalities. The National Security Servicel (DHS) of the United States recognize that the situation on the southern border is difficult.
The owner of that agency, Alejandro Mayorkas, released a statement noting that the main reasons migration has increased poverty, violence and corruption are: “The situation on the southern border is difficult, we work day and night to fix it, that’s our job.”
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Bernardo Mendez Lugo, retired diplomat, adviser in migration International and executive director of the America Without Walls Foundation, believes that the reasons why migration to the United States has increased are multifactorial, but essentially the false expectation that the president should be taken into consideration Joe Biden it allows them to cross the border.
“This expectation is not supported by real policy and the general impoverishment of the population due to the recessive impact of the Covid19 pandemic and especially in rural and indigenous regions, as well as on the peripheries of major cities, it encourages the migration of Biden’s arrival to power, ”he said.
The forced eviction, he added, is not only due to poverty and unemployment, but in some regions there is violence from organized crime and in some cases inter-ethnic attacks such as in Chiapas, Oaxaca and Michoacán. These situations drive forced displacement towards big cities.
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Méndez Lugo specified that another migration factor is climate change and natural disasters that cause forced migration and displacement in Mexico and Central America.
“A key factor for migration is the expectation that they can be the beneficiaries of the immigration regularization offered by President Biden.
In reality, those irregularly arriving in the United States today will be rejected at the border and deported The deleted, no nationality will be obtained, except in some cases of asylum or refugee applicants, ”said the expert.
Carlos Arango, leader of the movement Front side National of migrants, agreed that one of the main causes of the increase in emigration is the result of violence: “People cannot continue to live in these dire conditions. For years, violence has been a displacement factor for the most marginalized people.” THE UNIVERSAL.
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However, with the appearance of Covid-19, the economy began to slide into recession and people are trying to get ahead to feed their families.
The doctor Thomas Milton Munoz, director of the Journal of International Relations of the AHe stressed that the migration figures to the United States are nothing new; however, there are new factors driving the current displacement.
In the first place, he explained, there is the crisis that arose in several countries after the appearance of COVID-19. He added that in countries like Honduras, for example, there were two hurricanes in 2020 caused disasters.
“In addition, the structural causes that generate migration have not been addressed,” he said.