The largest group of immigrants to the United States and the largest number of immigrants who return house are Mexican.
In the first three weeks of 2024, Mexico reported last week that it had deported 8,612 foreigners. Ninety- two percent (7, 697 ) were deported to neighboring Guatemala and to Honduras, 437 were repatriated to Venezuela, whose members have shown up at the U. S. borders by the thousands since 2021. During that time, no other nation re-entertained more than 100 Mexican people.
In contrast, the Mexican government claims that in the first quarter of 2024, it issued 3,551 permanent resident tickets to refugees. More than 3, 000 people from Cuba and the Northern Triangle received workers. The cards that allowed them to operate were issued to Venezuelans who decided to remain in Mexico.
Mexico being able to take on at least some refugees is a key component of the American and international relief agencies ‘ plan to address the root causes of movement. According to American officials, border cities that need labor for factories that fill orders for the U.S. mechanical, health, and electronic industries might be able to fill that role.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection information, Mexicans are the majority of migrants who enter the country illegally through ports of entry.
A total of 579, 146 Hispanic immigrants were apprehended in fiscal year 2023 along the Southwest borders. Through March 31 of the current fiscal year, border officials had encountered 304, 510 Mexican who crossed improperly, the data shows. The majority of Hispanic community units crossing the border in 2023 were single people, but this number is increasing.
Mexico reports that from Jan. 1 to March 31 it has documented the transfer of 47, 659 of its people from U. S. government. The Interior Ministry says 13, 392 were dropped off in Tijuana, 9, 534 in Nuevo Laredo, 8, 755 in Nogales and 3, 572 in Juarez.
The agency’s report shows most are from state where at least one in three people live in poverty – Chiapas, Oaxaca, Mexico State, Puebla, Mexico City, etc. Another 15, 549 came from Michoacan, Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and Tamaulipas, state ravaged by drug gang warfare.
” Right now, the most numerous citizenship we see here are Mexicans”, said Enrique Valenzuela, head of the Chihuahua Population Council that runs Juarez’s Migrant Assistance Center. ” We receive them, we ask about their demands, we tell them of service available. That could be health care, referrals to a house, letters for work, a food in our home, or directions to the nearest lender so they can get cash from relatives”.
In Juarez, most of the Mexican workers sent up by the U. S. are from Michoacan, Guerrero, Zacatecas and suggest they migrated because they “were displaced”, Valenzuela said.
Jose Luis, a Mexican who was interviewed next month as he crossed the Rio Grande into El Paso, argued that the United States should grant political asylum to more Mexican nationals. He claimed to have encountered numerous foreign nationals on his way to the borders and that they are more likely to fall for scammers.
” For those of us who know the land, it’s not that hard, it’s safer. Many workers who had experienced kidnapping and extortion were staying in a house with me. They suffer more”, Jose Luis said, adding he wants to leave Mexico because of anxiety of thieves.
