Mexico hit by surge of 5K Haitian, African and Asian migrants on their way to the U.S.

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Mexican immigration authorities said Saturday they have been hit by a surge of almost 5,000 Haitian, African and Asian migrants entering by the southern border in just a few days.

Recent experience suggests the 4,749 migrants entering through Mexico’s Tapachula immigration center on the Guatemalan border will soon try to reach the California border, with many expected to apply for asylum.  

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said the migrants entered the country between Sept. 21 and 23. It did not break them down according to country of origin, but recent trends suggest the majority are likely from Haiti.

That would mark a huge increase over the number seen so far this year. The institute said a total of 7,800 Haitian migrants entered Mexico through Guatemala between Jan. 1 and Sept. 21, as well as 1,701 migrants from Africa and 3,753 from various Asian.

The institute said that none of these Haitian, African or Asian migrants have requested permission to stay in Mexico. “Up to this moment, the institute has not received any requests from these foreigners for refuge, asylum or regularization, because they have expressed that their desire is to reach the United States.”

The migrants cannot be sent back to their home countries, so Mexico gives them 20-day temporary visas so they can cross the country and get to the U.S. It said the Africans came mainly from the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria.

However, this week the U.S. government said it was widening efforts to deport Haitians in response to the wave of thousands of immigrants from the Caribbean nation who have overwhelmed California border crossings with Mexico in recent months.

Mexico said that in Baja California alone, about 1,230 Haitian, African and Asian migrants are waiting for asylum in the United States, in many cases at border crossing gates or bridges.

The institute said Mexico was trying to provide the asylum seekers with food and water while they waited for a U.S. response.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana testified in Congress that other governments told her on a recent trip to Central America that 40,000 Haitians were on their way and called it an “emergency situation” on California’s border.

A government move lifted special protections that shielded Haitians from deportation after their nation’s 2010 earthquake.

The change may dramatically affect Haitians who have been showing up at U.S. border crossings in California, claiming they lived in Brazil for several years, left for economic reasons, and traveled through Central America and Mexico. Homeland Security officials say about 5,000 Haitians have been stopped at San Diego’s San Ysidro port of entry since October, compared to only 339 for the 2015 fiscal year. Large numbers have also turned themselves in to U.S. inspectors in Calexico, California, 120 miles east of San Diego.

The influx is so heavy that inspectors at San Ysidro, the nation’s busiest border crossing, are turning back Haitians with appointments to come at a later date, leaving hundreds waiting in Tijuana, Mexico. Many stay at one of the Mexican border city’s five migrant shelters that volunteered in May to help.

The Rev. Pat Murphy, director of Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, said 90 percent of the people who have come to his shelter in the last six weeks are Haitians who moved to Brazil after the 2010 earthquake.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2016/09/25/mexico-hit-by-surge-5k-haitian-african-and-asian-migrants-on-their-way-to-us/

8 thoughts on “Mexico hit by surge of 5K Haitian, African and Asian migrants on their way to the U.S.

  1. Of course they’re on their way here. Why else would they go to Mexico? It’s only a brief stopover toward the American welfare system.

    It’ll be real nice when all the free money dries up. They’ll turn to crime, and America will be ethnically cleansed in the process. And we’ll be cleansed of a lot of liberals at the same time.

  2. Funny how they always have to go through Mexico first.

    Why don’t they just come here directly? It’s not like the sheeple or our foreign government in occupation will do anything to them anyways. They’ll just say, “Come right in. Here’s $250 a day for your troubles. Just pick a state and job and we’ll get that house built for you shortly.”

    Funny how Mexicans have no problems arresting and killing people who cross into their country illegally, but when it comes to these people, they just let them through.

    Hey, how about we just let them all through and have them cross the border and into Canada and let them deal with them, especially since there’s more land mass than people up there?

    Oh wait! It’s too cold for them and that would ruin the elites plan.

    Unfrigginbelievable……..

  3. THE JEWS, CATHOLICS AND BAPTISTS HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING TO “FINANCE”…………………………………..ITS DAMN SURE NOT “WIDOWS AND ORPHANS”……

  4. Thankfully they don’t care for the weather in this neck of the woods, apparently.

    Sweet Home population stats for 2015…

    Total Population 8,925
    Population by Races
    White 8,330
    Hispanic or Latino 418
    Two or More Races 267
    American Indian 120
    Some Other Race 101

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