Posted on 03/17/2022 4:57:39 AM PDT by Theoria
Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians fleeing their countries are choosing an unusual route to escape sanctions and war: Traveling to Mexico and then crossing the U.S. border.
The numbers of both nationalities entering Mexico have soared in recent months. While some are tourists, Mexican officials believe the majority plan on migrating to the U.S., arriving at Mexican destinations like Cancún and then flying to a northern border city like Tijuana, which is across the border from San Diego.
In January and February, some 30,111 Russians entered Mexico, compared with an average of 12,380 during each of the past five years, according to Mexican immigration data. The number of Ukrainians entering Mexico has also surged to 10,031 in January and February from an average of 4,078 during the same period for the past five years.
The vast majority of the Russian and Ukrainian migrants who enter the U.S. are handing themselves in at official ports of entry and asking for asylum rather than sneaking in across isolated stretches of the border, according to U.S. government data. While ports of entry are technically still closed to asylum seekers under temporary pandemic rules, some migrants—including Russians and Ukrainians—are being allowed in under humanitarian exemptions.
Most Russians and Ukrainians will likely be allowed to stay and apply for asylum or other protections in the U.S., a process that can take years. Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced a halt to deportation flights to Ukraine, Russia and seven other European nations amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians already in the U.S. are also being offered Temporary Protected Status, protecting them from deportation.
Most of the arrivals are middle class individuals and families with the means to pay for an airplane ticket to Mexico, immigration lawyers say.
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Why not, everyone else is coming through from Mexico.
But.Human.Trafficking Bad.
At this rate they could be safer heading south into South America instead.
“Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced a halt to deportation flights to Ukraine, Russia and seven other European nations amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
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Why were they being sent back but not the Mexicans, Guatemalens, etc? Because they are white?
I’d be fine with legal immigration, but we have no process for weeding out drugs, and terrorists, and criminals. The whole thing has got to go through a registered entry, along with an illness quarantine period.
That isn’t too much to ask!
Thank goodness the southern border is wide open! That Biden is a genius! 🤪🔫
White people coming across the border will get it shut down immediately.
We are full. Immigration legal/illegal has been nonstop for decades.
Heard just a week ago that Ukrainians were being turned away at the Mexican border.
I wouldn’t trust Russians who were at the border in January.
“Why were they being sent back but not the Mexicans, Guatemalens, etc? Because they are white?”
Probably.
I wonder how much THEY will receive in freebies.
We are so effed.
GOP has an opportunity here. “We need to finish the wall to stop Russian infiltrators! “
I’m not an expert but I think it would be pretty easy to spot Ukrainians and Russians crossing the border, seems like they would stick out like a sore thumb.
Be sure to re-elect Amnesty Senators Rubio and Hoeven!
The GOP are the ones who have been keeping the border open for 30 years.
Getting the border back open again is why they colluded with Democrats to cheat Trump out.
A flood of white people into the United States. This is likely to be what the Left is seeing and this could make them want to seal the border, especially when there are more white people coming in illegally that non-white people. It complicates their plan to make white Americans an abused and disadvantaged minority to be constantly harassed and denigrated. Especially when whites continue to show they can continue to demonstrate strong middle class values and success in the face of all the difficulties thrown in their path.
The Democrats just want uneducated pawns to manipulate and trap on the plantation.
Oh No!!! The white people are coming!
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