Venezuelans Increasingly Stuck in Mexico

The Associated Press reports on recent developments in migration in the Western Hemisphere.    Venezuelan migrants  now often identify Mexico as being “the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border.”

“In the jungle, you have to prepare for animals. In Mexico, you have to prepare for humans,” Daniel Ventura said after walking through the Darien Gap and four months waiting in Mexico to enter the United States,  

According to AP, “Mexico’s crackdown on immigration in recent months — at the urging of the Biden administration — has hit Venezuelans especially hard. The development highlights how much the U.S. depends on Mexico to control migration, which has reached unprecedented levels and is a top issue for voters as President Joe Biden seeks reelection.”

KJ