America suffers its worst migration crisis

• A group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river that separates the United States and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas, on March 14, 2019. AP

 America is experiencing one of its biggest migratory crises with hundreds of thousands of transients trying to reach the US to achieve the “American dream”, each time more difficult by the constant deportations and the danger of the borders, especially those of Mexico and Panama. with Colombia.

This has made irregular migration one of the main topics to be debated at the Summit of the Americas, which will be held in Colombia. from June 6 to 10 in Los Angeles (USA).

Haiti, the origin
One of the main foci of the migratory crisis is in Haiti, where gang violence, famine, political crisis, and the destruction it caused. The 2021 earthquake is expelling the population at an accelerated rate towards the American continent.

The coordinator of the National Board for Migration and Refugees in the Dominican Republic, William Charpentier, told Efe that “Haitian citizens are desperate and have to flee their country to improve their living conditions, but also to save their lives.”

In their exodus, Haitians join the migrant caravans to the US In recent months, they have resorted more frequently to the dangerous routes of the Caribbean Sea in fragile vessels bound for Florida or Puerto Rico.

The US Coast Guard captured It has killed 3,900 Haitians so far this year, more than double last year, and already counts 175 dead or missing at sea.

The Dominican Navy in&shy ;terceptó to 1,747 Haitians in the last six months alone and also to 2,201 Dominicans who, seeking better living conditions, tried to travel illegally to Puerto Rico, through trai­

considered one of the most dangerous routes in the world due to the jungle climate itself and the presence of armed groups.

Until last April, 19.,irregular migrants crossed the border&shy ra, while last year more than 133,000 people crossed it, a historical figure and similar to that registered in the entire previous decade, according to official government figures of Panama.

The Northern Triangle
This wave is added to the caravans of the Northern Triangle of Central America, made up of citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, fleeing from aggravated poverty, violence from the ma­ras (gangs) and drug trafficking, towards a better life in the US and Canada.

Deportations from the US rose 583.8% at the end of the first quarter of 2022, According to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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Mexico.
Mexico is experiencing a record migratory flow to the US: the Latin country deported Mexico. More than 114,000 foreigners in 2021, according to data from the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior.

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