2023-12-26 19:43:16
The US State Department announced in a statement its intention to seek “measures” that would allow the reopening of all border ports. (ADAM DAVIS / EFE)
The magnitude of the migration crisis on the southern border of the United States has resulted in the arrival of more than 2.2 million migrants so far this year, according to Customs and Border Protection.
According to this office, from January to November 2023, 2,240,000 arrived at the border, while for the same period in 2022 there were 2,326,711 migrants who presented themselves and 1,856,332 in 2021.
Mexico, with more than 700 thousand people who arrived at the southern border of the USA, is the country that has the largest number of migrants in official records, followed by Guatemala, Honduras and Colombia.
With the aim of controlling migration across the border, a delegation representing the US President, Joe Biden, He will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to negotiate urgently with the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The US State Department announced in a statement its intention to seek “measures” that would allow the reopening of all border ports. since some of them have had to close temporarily due to the magnitude of the migration crisis.
On the eve of this visit by the US delegation, a caravan of more than 10,000 migrants left on Christmas Eve from the southern border of Mexico to the United States to protest against the agreements between both countries to further contain the migratory flow.
The United States Customs and Border Protection also reported that in November it detained 242,000 migrants on the border with Mexico and detected a spike in migrant arrivals in the first days of December.
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