Juarez City.— The border between Mexico and the United States represents one of the routes where more deaths and disappearances of migrants are registered; Approximately 623 incidents were reported by the Missing Migrants Project between January and December 2022 in this sector, indicates the analysis of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), “Migratory Trends in the Americas.”
Among the main causes of death of migrants transiting from Mexico to the United States are drowning, accidents in vehicles or related to transportation, extreme environmental conditions, lack of shelter, water or food, violence, diseases and deaths. accidental.
According to the monitoring of El Diario, so far in 2023 at least 44 more migrants have died in Ciudad Juárez, a Central American couple on January 23, one more couple on January 24, all on Isla Tonga street in the colony September 16, and 40 more after the fire that occurred on March 27 inside the facilities of the National Institute of Migration (INM).
disappeared
Since 2014, a total of 7,209 missing migrants have been reported in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
From January to December 2022 in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America there have been 1,268 lives lost, of them 232 women, 616 men and 91 minors, in addition to 329 more unidentified cases.
From December 28, 2022 to January 11, 2023, four presumed shipwrecks occurred in the Florida Straits, related to Cuban migrants bound for the United States. These events reveal the tragic record of lives lost by migrants in the Caribbean during the year 2022, the IOM highlighted.
“In Central American countries, irregular entries increased significantly during 2022, both Panama and Honduras recorded record numbers of migrants at their border points. In this 2023, the Panamanian authorities announced that between January and March 26, 78,585 migrants transited irregularly through Panama from Colombia, of these 25,666 are Venezuelans, 21,804 Haitians and 13,842 Ecuadorians. The total number of encounters on the southwest border of the United States increased by 27 percent compared to 2021, with a total of 2,577,669 encounters, with a recomposition of the main nationalities, with a significant novelty involving South American nationalities. ”, reported the international agency.
exceptions
During January and February 2023, 18,000 Venezuelans and 12,000 Ecuadorians entered Panama on a regular basis, mainly from air entry points. The beginning of 2023 has also maintained this trend in most borders except the United States. Venezuelans are the ones who have a leading role in the great movements of the Americas, driven by the complex situation in their country of origin and in transit countries.
Other relevant nationalities in these large movements during 2022 and early 2023 have been Haitians, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorians on their way to North America.
of impact
One of the events that had the greatest impact on migratory movements in these countries was the opening of the Humanitarian Regularization Program in the United States, which initially targeted Venezuelan nationals but was later extended to Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguans. The initiative agreed to process at least 30,000 travel authorizations per month. During the month of February of this year, 22,755 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (including immediate family members) entered the humanitarian regularization program through the processes of the Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations (CBP). ) which since 2022 has a series of regulations established for migrants from these four countries.
In this sector
623 were the incidents related to registered travelers during 2022
At least 44 are reported so far in 2023 in Juárez, 40 of them after a fire at INM
