Fewer Venezuelan arrivals at the US southern border contribute to a plunge in illegal crossings

The Border Patrol made 182,114 apprehensions of migrants of all nationalities in April, an increase of 12% compared to what was registered in March, but 11% less than in the same period last year.

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A 98% drop in arrivals of Venezuelans at the southern border of the United States has helped a sharp decline in the number of migrants entering the country illegally since asylum restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic expired last week. US officials reported Wednesday. Border Patrol has apprehended migrants an average of 4,400 times a day since Friday, when a public health rule known as Title 42 ended. The average includes fewer than 4,000 migrants on each of the last two days, according to Blas Nuñez-

Neto, acting assistant secretary for Border Policy and Immigration at the Department of Homeland Security. That's less than the daily average of more than 10,000 that was recorded in the four days before Title 42 expired.

“We continue to see encouraging signs that the measures we have put in place are working,”

Nuñez-Neto told reporters, adding that “it is still too early to draw any conclusions about where these trends will go in the coming days and weeks.”

Figures for April released Wednesday better illustrate how Venezuelans drove much of the influx to the border in the waning days of Title 42. Authorities made nearly 30,000 apprehensions of Venezuelans during the month, nine times more than in March.

The US government has been promoting a strategy that combines new legal routes to enter the United States with consequences for those who do not use them.

In the days before Title 42 expired, Border Patrol apprehended 2,400 Venezuelans a day, along with 1,900 Mexicans and 1,400 Colombians, Nuñez-Neto said. After Title 42 expired, Mexicans replaced Venezuelans as the top nationality with 1,000 citizens a day, followed by 510 Colombians and 470 Guatemalans. The number of Venezuelans fell to 50. There are “several promising signs” that migration through Panama's dangerous Darien region is slowing, Nuñez-Neto said.

Migration from Venezuela also fell in October after Mexico began to receive people from the South American nation who were expelled by the United States under

Title 42, which denied the right to request asylum on the grounds of preventing the spread of the virus. COVID-19. However, Venezuelans began arriving again in large numbers just before Title 42 expired, after walking for days through Panama. The United States has been sending “thousands” of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans back to Mexico under a new policy, which went into effect Friday, that denies asylum to anyone traveling through another country, such as Mexico, to cross the US border illegally, with few exceptions, Nuñez-Neto said. The new legal routes include allowing up to 30,000 Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans into the United States each month if they meet requirements such as applying online, having a financial sponsor and arriving by plane. Figures released Wednesday show those four nationalities took advantage of parole offers in April, but of the four, only Venezuelans crossed the border illegally in record high numbers, second only to Mexicans. The United States has also been admitting 1,000 people a day at land border crossings with Mexico if they request it in northern Mexico through a mobile app called CBPOne. Nuñez-Neto said that the number allowed in the app will increase soon, but did not say when or in what proportion. So far, President Joe Biden's warnings that the border is going to be "chaotic for a while" have not played out as some thought, with numbers only a third of the government's highest estimates. Border Patrol had more than 28,000 people in custody last week, doubling in two weeks and leading the agency to release thousands without notices to appear in immigration court. Instead, they were sent notices to appear at an immigration office within 60 days, dramatically reducing processing time and allowing officers to free up space in the detention facility. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Florida expanded his order, first issued last week, to prohibit quick releases. Nuñez-Neto reiterated on Wednesday the government's disagreement with the court order, although he acknowledged that the lower number of crossings has eased custody conditions. On Sunday, the Border Patrol had 22,259 people in custody, 23% less than four days earlier..

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