Thousands of migrants heading to America from Mexico's southern border
Biden admin to spend $950M on border wall repairs, upgrades after campaign promise to not build ‘another foot’include hundreds of thousands of people from as far away as China, India and Africa, recent federal government statistics show.
In fiscal 2021, there were less than 19,000 migrant “encounters” from Asia and Africa, according to CBP statistics. 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. 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.
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