Heard on the news this morning, so I looked it up:
Border migrant encounters have dropped by half since Title 42 ended, federal official says
Says 5,000 a day rather than 10,000; okay, still pretty high right? I noticed in the article:
“It is important to note that while Title 42 has ended, the conditions that are causing hemispheric migration at unprecedented levels have not changed.”
So ... what are these conditions?
The Reasons Behind the Increased Migration from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua
"The state of the Cuban economy is also a function of longstanding U.S. economic sanctions against the island nation since Castro. Since 1962, the United States has adopted policies to isolate the Cuban government. Although relations briefly thawed during the Obama administration, which initiated a policy shift away from sanctions and toward normalizing relations, the Trump administration largely reversed those efforts. Obama-era changes that included restoring diplomatic relations and easing restrictions on travel, remittances, trade, telecommunications, and financial services were largely undercut by new sanctions introduced by the Trump administration in 2017 and 2021. This new round of sanctions affected two of the island’s most important sources of income: travel and remittances. With remittances representing the third largest source of income in Cuba, the 2017 sanctions were a severe blow to the Cuban economy.[1] The economic fallout of these sanctions further drove migration to the United States, a trend that only worsened due to Covid-19."
Could be if the u.s. government stopped that, the number would half again. Just a thought ...
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