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In 2021, more than 4,100 Russians were encountered compared to fewer than 500 the previous year. Apprehensions have spiked further in October, with more than 1,500 Russian citizens apprehended.

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• While the Border Patrol historically has encountered small numbers of people from more than 100 nations every year, the number from some of those countries are rising significantly, as are the numbers of countries.

• Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, announced this week arrests of people from around the world, including Eritrea, Uzbekistan, Syria, and Lebanon.

• The United Nations International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Report released on Wednesday concluded that the U.S. is the top destination for migrants globally for several reasons.

• People across Latin America, which comprises Central and South America, have taken a harder hit economically than any other region, according to Michael Clemens, director of migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy at the Washington-based Center for Global Development.

• While the coronavirus pandemic chipped away at 2% of the economy in the developing world, it erased 7% of the entire Latin American economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.

• “That has meant skyrocketing unemployment and economic anxiety all over the region, amidst red-hot demand for some kinds of labor in the United States,” Clemens wrote in an email. “This partially explains migration pressure from several parts of the hemisphere.”

• “That pressure has particularly impacted people in Latin America who are already migrants from other countries in the region,” Clemens said. “In very bad economic times, countries often restrict migrants’ access to lawful residence, jobs, and benefits.

• Countries across Latin America have done this with migrants from Haiti, who had spread across the region years before the pandemic, pushing them northward.”

SOURCE: WASHINGTONEXAMINER