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Apr 15, 2019 · Ever since I started reporting on the migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border, there’s a question I’ve been asking: Is somebody funding this mass migration? Is someone paying for these migrants’ travel, food, and shelter—and if so, who? What’s the agenda? Over the months, I’ve heard many theories—some plausible, some not so much.
- Executive Summary
- The Landscape
- Impact on Mexican Communities
- The Role of Transnational Criminal Organizations
- Research Methodology
- Findings
- What Caused The Increased Migration?
- Policy Recommendations: Reforming The Immigration System
- Other Steps to Reduce The Flow of Migrants
- Appendix
U.S. immigration policy remains murky in substance as well as legislatively incomplete. Polarization of the issue by American politicians and legislators has resulted in both punitive and permissive policy pronouncements over the last four U.S. presidential administrations, most of which have done little to deter migrants from crossing through Mexi...
In 2021, the U.S. detained more than four times the number of illegal entrants encountered in previous years. According to the Pew Research Center, almost 11 million immigrants have been living and working in the U.S. since 2016, with approximately 1.6 million in Texas alone.The successful entry of many of these migrants into the U.S. set the stage...
Migrant caravans not only tend to increase their size as they move northward, but they also raise attention as they become a logistical and humanitarian concern for Mexican locals. Indeed, local municipalities have become increasingly concerned about their ability to cater for so many people that need assistance.When these caravans reached their in...
Most Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) began as drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) but they have since evolved, controlling almost everything that arrives in Mexico — including migrants, money, drugs, chemicals, and weapons. According to Uncovering Human Smuggling Patterns, the majority of migrant smuggling activities through M...
After reviewing the growing progress of migrant caravans since 2017, we validated our research by applying some specific procedures such as tracking the latest development of the situation, focusing on migrant group interviews, and using database analysis. We used open sources, including the Pew Research Center, to obtain key information such as cr...
We found that policies driven by political posturing did not appear to have had an impact on the number of migrants choosing to leave their home counties each year. The size of any given caravan appears to correlate to the organizer’s identity — whether the caravan was sponsored by a TCO, a nonprofit, or an NGO — and by general attitudes toward exi...
Pull Factors
Permissive immigration policies in the U.S. tend to convert migrant perceptions into “pull” factors because of the perception that a particular administration may not be “hard” on immigration, causing more migrants to cross the border illegally and stay in the U.S. The Pew Research Center reported that the majority of the encounters with people “other than Mexicans” (OTMs) in 2021 involved 308,931 from Honduras (accounting for 19% of all the encounters reported), 279,033 with people from Guat...
Push Factors
Push factors, or the reasons that individuals might emigrate from their homes, (e.g., poverty, lack of social mobility, violence, persecution, etc.) also play a role in driving migration. Understanding the events in Central America helps to explain why Central Americans were migrating in significantly higher numbers, and provides a picture of some of the push factors in play during the last five years: 1. Guatemala: As the most populous country in Central America, Guatemala has a highly unequ...
Caravans represent a small portion of the overall total number of migrants traveling across Mexico. However, the simultaneous movement of such large numbers of people en masse have impacted immigration policymaking because of the optics and the media coverage these caravans receive. The arrival of the Biden administration brought with it a shift in...
Beyond immigration reform and opening more pathways to legal migration, our research suggests several other ways to reframe the discussion about immigration and help victims of human smuggling: Hold sponsors of human smuggling accountable. Migrants should be seen as victims of circumstance, exploited by TCOs, and not as criminals who have violated ...
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Jan 9, 2024 · By ÉDGAR H. CLEMENTE. Updated 5:04 PM PDT, January 8, 2024. ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — A caravan of about 2,000 migrants on Monday resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised. The original caravan of about 6,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba and ...
Oct 26, 2018 · Oct. 26, 2018. PIJIJIAPAN, Mexico — For two weeks, throngs of people have trudged north, crossing first from Honduras into Guatemala and then on to Mexico, bound for the United States border ...
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Dec 25, 2023 · 25 December 2023. EPA. At least 7,000 migrants are estimated to have joined the caravan. By Thomas Mackintosh & Vanessa Buschschlüter. BBC News. Thousands of migrants have set off on foot from...
Jan 4, 2024 · What authorities are doing is trying to make it harder and harder for migrants to reach the border within the U.S. And migrants rights advocates here say that the U.S. has actually managed to ...
Nov 2, 2023 · 2 November 2023. Reuters. So far, the migrant caravan has made its way about 40km (25 miles) from Tapachula to Huixtla. By Vanessa Buschschlüter. BBC News. A group of thousands of migrants who...
