A brief thread about migration trends in #Mexico, based on Mexican government data updated through April, and through May for asylum seekers.
5 months into 2022, Mexico has already received its 3rd-highest annual total of asylum requests. At this pace 2022 will be 2d after 2021.
New asylum applications in #Mexico have declined for two consecutive months, though.
This is from the latest summary by Mexico's refugee agency @comar_sg, posted today: gob.mx/comar/articulo…
Far fewer people applying for asylum in #Mexico this year are from #Haiti, compared to last year. #Honduras is back in the number-1 position, followed by #Cuba.
April saw #Mexico's migration authorities apprehend their 5th-largest monthly number of migrants: 30,980 people.
Unlike in the past, half of migrants apprehended in #Mexico in April were _not_ from #ElSalvador, #Guatemala, or #Honduras.
Many this year have come from (in declining order) #Cuba, #Nicaragua, #Colombia, #Venezuela, #Ecuador, #Haiti, #Chile (kids of Haitian parents), #Peru.
US deportations of Mexicans into #Mexico are up. April deportations to the dangerous state of Tamaulipas (3,804) hit their highest level since November 2020.
Source docs:
- Mexico Unidad de Política Migratoria: politicamigratoria.gob.mx/es/PoliticaMig…
- @comar_sg: gob.mx/comar/articulo…
See all 51 of @WOLA_org's current border and migration infographics at borderoversight.org/infographics/
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