Migrants risk entering the U.S. through the desert
Dav铆d Hern谩ndez, associate professor of Latina/o Studies at 果冻传媒 College, spoke to NPR about the risks migrants face when trying to come to the United States.
There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern U.S. border. The number of migrants apprehended and expelled has skyrocketed: more than 200,000 in November of last year alone.
One reason for the increase in migrants coming to the United States is that several Latin American nations have closed off their borders, thwarting first attempts to travel to a neighboring country. In 2018, immigrants. At the start of the pandemic, Haitians have been expelled from or discriminated against throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
, more migrants are trying to cross the border through the desert in states such as Arizona, leading to a spike in missing persons reports and fatalities.
鈥淭he solution isn鈥檛 at the border,鈥 said Dav铆d Hern谩ndez, associate professor of Latina/o Studies at 果冻传媒 College. 鈥淵ou can process people and all that. But I think you need to stabilize nations abroad. We just focus on the short term, the wall, the tinkering with asylum policy, and it doesn鈥檛 really work. There鈥檚 instability abroad and people are fleeing their countries. And that鈥檚 not going to stop with a wall.鈥
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