1.66 million illegal immigrants were apprehended at the Mexico-US border by the US Border Patrol in the 2021 fiscal year, which ended in September.
608,000 arrestees (36.6%) were Mexicans
308,931 from Honduras
279,033 from Guatemala
95,930 from El Salvador
95,000 from Ecuador
57,000 from Brazil
50,000 from Nicaragua
48,000 from Venezuela
45,000 from Haiti
38,000 from Cuba
2,600 from India
The large numbers from Brazil, Ecuador and Nicaragua are new and surprising.
More than 90,000 people entered Panama via the deadly Darien Gap from January to September including hundreds of people from Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal and other distant countries.
There are no numbers of how many died, got killed and were lost in the gang violence at the US-Mexico border and attacks from venomous snakes in the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama.
The number of illegal entrants stopped at the US border in 2021 is the highest ever since 1960. The earlier record was 1.61 million in 1986. The number was around one million in most years between 1983 and 2006. After this, it declined to between three and four hundred thousand until 2018. It jumped to 851,000 in 2019 but decreased to 400,000 in 2020.
It is heart breaking that so many people took the deadly risk of migration journey even at this dangerous covid times.
Such large numbers is also indicative of the booming business of the human trafficking agencies.
Sources:
Forbes 22 October report, based on US government statistics.
US Border patrol https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2021-Aug/US59B8~1.PDF
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