Mexico is a federation of states located in the South of North America and comprising of 31 states of which Mexico City is the capital. The nation has a total area of , square miles, which makes it the 14th largest state globally and the population was estimated at ,, in The federal republic is bio-diverse and it ranks first worldwide in the number of heritage site within its borders Mexico is bordered by the US to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast.
There are 11 border crossings between Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico with only one linking Mexico to Belize and 10 to Guatemala. The Mexico-United States border is one of the most crossed borders globally. It stretches from the Gulf of Mexico across a vast terrain and ends at the Pacific Ocean.
The border has a total length of 1, miles, and it traverses six Mexican states and four US states. Border Patrol. It excludes encounters reported by the Office of Field Operations.
Southwest border encounters increased to their highest recorded level in fiscal The Border Patrol reported 1,, encounters with migrants at the U. The large number of encounters in fiscal dwarfed the total during the last major wave of migration at the southwest border, which occurred in fiscal The Border Patrol recorded , encounters that year. While the number of encounters was the highest on record last fiscal year, the number of individuals encountered was considerably lower.
These recidivism statistics include encounters at all U. While separate statistics for only the U. A record number of encounters in fiscal involved people from countries other than Mexico. Mexico was the single most common origin country for migrants encountered at the border in fiscal Most of the encounters with non-Mexicans in fiscal involved people from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The Northern Triangle region has been a major source of migration at the U. S-Mexico border in recent years. Encounters soared in fiscal for some countries that have not historically been common sources of migration at the U. The number of encounters involving people from Ecuador, for example, increased more than eightfold, from 11, in fiscal to 95, in fiscal There were also stark increases in encounters involving people from Brazil from 6, to 56, , Nicaragua from 2, to 49, , Venezuela from 1, to 47, , Haiti from 4, to 45, and Cuba from 9, to 38, Economic, social and political instability in some of these countries likely played a role in the spike in encounters at the U.
Haiti, meanwhile, has faced a number of challenges in recent years, ranging from natural disasters to the assassination of its president in July. Related: Biden administration widens scope of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants.
The increase in encounters at the U. The number of encounters involving people from Romania rose from in fiscal to 4, in fiscal , while the number involving people from Turkey increased from 67 to 1, Migrant encounters increased across demographic groups in fiscal , but single adults continued to account for the large majority.
Encounters with unaccompanied children rose from 30, in fiscal to , in fiscal , while encounters with people traveling in families increased from 52, to , By far the largest number and share of encounters involved single adults.
These fences do not all connect to form one continuous line. There are some areas that have no fencing at all. Moore said the area is heavily surveilled from the American side, with tower-mounted cameras and frequent helicopter patrols. The fence separating San Diego, left, from Tijuana stops at the side of a large hill in May So although many undocumented immigrants can actually cross over the border, the terrain often funnels people through certain areas. And that's where the Border Patrol frequently sets up its checkpoints.
Migrants shower outside a temporary shelter that was set up near the border fence in November Maria Elena Carrillo holds her 3-year-old daughter, Camilla Escalante, while speaking through the border fence in Tijuana in May The US Border Patrol tightly controls the San Diego side, and during specific weekend hours it allows visitors to speak to loved ones through the fence at an area called Friendship Park.
A painting of an Aztec warrior adorns the Mexican side of this fence in September Since , Moore said, the US government has been working to replace this kind of landing-mat fencing because of the dangers it poses to Border Patrol agents. Mexico is seen over the border fence at the Imperial Sand Dunes in November Young men walk along the Mexican side of the fence in a remote area of the Sonoran Desert, near the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona in December But they do nothing to stop people.
This type of fencing is mostly used in remote areas. Children on the Mexican side of the fence look into Nogales, Arizona, in July Jackson meets regularly with local ranchers to coordinate the agency's efforts on border issues.
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