Across the Americas people are on the move. A recent declaration on migration, signed by 21 countries, sets out some common approaches to migration and asylum procedures
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskYet across the Americas people are on the move in new ways as well as old. Groups of Haitians now congregate in cities from Mexico to Santiago. Venezuelans deliver meals on bikes in Lima and Bogotá. More than 150,000 Nicaraguans have sought refuge in Costa Rica. A similar number of Cubans have left their island in the past year.
The figures are distorted by Title 42, a public-health measure imposed during the pandemic by Donald Trump under which migrants are pushed back over the United States border, rather than processed or arrested. This has had the unintended consequence of encouraging Mexicans in particular to make repeated attempts to cross. Even so, roughly half of border “encounters” reported byCustoms and Border Protection in April and May involved people not from Mexico or the Northern Triangle.
All this adds up to a headache for governments. It is stimulating new thinking, as last month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles showed. The gathering was marked by controversy: six leaders stayed away, including Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, because President Joe Biden did not invite the rulers of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Yet more important was what was agreed.
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