Immigration Watch International (2): More than 200K African, Asian migrants crossed US southern border during ballooning crisis: data

Monday, November 6, 2023

More than 200K African, Asian migrants crossed US southern border during ballooning crisis: data

The crowds of migrants pouring across the U.S. southern border include hundreds of thousands of people from as far away as China, India and Africa, recent federal government statistics show.

Arrests of migrants from countries such as Senegal, Mauritania, China and India entering via Mexico tripled to 214,000 during the fiscal year that ended in September, from 70,000 in the prior fiscal year, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.

In fiscal 2021, there were less than 19,000 migrant “encounters” from Asia and Africa, according to CBP statistics.

Overall, in fiscal 2023, CBP counted nearly 2.48 million encounters at the southern border, up 4% from 2.39 million the previous year.

“The increase in migration from Asia and Africa is remarkable,” said Enrique Lucero, head of the migrant support unit of the Tijuana city government, across from San Diego in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “These days, we are dealing with 120 nationalities and 60 different languages.”

It was the second consecutive year “encounters” along the length of the nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico topped two million, according to CBP statistics. Most of the migrants continue to be from Latin America and the Caribbean.

The new groups, known as “extracontinentals” are posing a challenge to federal authorities because deporting migrants back to Asian and African countries is time-consuming and expensive, according to the outlet.

“That puts a lot of strain on our operations because we just don’t have longstanding ties or agreements in place with many countries in order to facilitate quick removals,” a US government official told the newspaper. “We are actively working on that.”

In Mexico, authorities reported a four-fold increase of migrants from Asia and Africa this year, the Journal reported. Travelers said they use TikTok and Facebook to share information and videos of their routes, while others use the details they find online to launch their own trips.

Chinese migrants typically make their way to the US southern border after flying into Brazil, Ecuador or Nicaragua, which have limited visa requirements for some nationalities.

They then travel by bus or cars to hotels or houses where they are put up by smugglers. Many wear disposable bracelets like those used at resorts, with details naming the groups that coordinated their trip, Mexican authorities told the Journal.

Migrants from India more often fly to Mexico City from Europe, or cross the border through Canada, according to reports.

CBP data shows there were 189,402 encounters at the northern border in the fiscal year that ended in September, a 73 percent leap from the 109,535 the prior year and a nearly sevenfold surge from two years ago.

U.S. and Mexican authorities are also seeing a growing number of Russians arriving as they flee their homes — about 12,500 since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, compared with 509 the year before the war.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/more-than-200k-african-asian-migrants-crossed-us-southern-border-during-ballooning-crisis-data/

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Monday, November 6, 2023

More than 200K African, Asian migrants crossed US southern border during ballooning crisis: data

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