It took practically a month for Fabricio Hoyos to make the damaging and unsure trek from Venezuela to the US. However as he arrived at a migrant processing heart just lately, he had one other lengthy journey forward: the method of searching for asylum.
CBS Information nationwide correspondent Manuel Bojoquez spoke to Hoyos on the migrant processing heart, situated in El Paso, Texas, the place round 1,500 migrants are seen every day. About half of these being seen on the heart are coming from Venezuela.
They're a part of what U.S. Customs and Border Safety have referred to as a "new wave" of migration. 157,921 individuals have been encountered at borders nationwide final month, in accordance with the company — a 2.2% improve from the month earlier than.
"Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a brand new wave of migration throughout the Western Hemisphere, together with the current improve in encounters on the southwest U.S. border," CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus mentioned this week in a assertion.
He added that "these fleeing repressive regimes pose vital challenges for processing and elimination."
On the heart in El Paso, migrants are screened and vetted, and recognized and categorised, in accordance U.S. Customs and Border Safety spokesperson Landon Hutchens. They — together with individuals coming from Nicaragua and Cuba — are processed underneath Title 8 authorities, mentioned Hutchens. That often permits them to be launched and request asylum, a course of that sometimes takes years to finish.
However not everyone seems to be allowed in. In line with Customs and Border Safety, greater than 1.3 million migrants have been deported or expelled to this point this yr. It is a quantity higher than these nonetheless in the US.
Nonetheless, critics say the Biden administration's insurance policies incentivize migrant crossings.