Mexicans and Central Americans from the Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—are no longer the majority of illegal aliens whom border agents encounter.
Now, the majority are in a category called “other” (293,619) followed by Mexicans (291,101) and the rest, data from U.S. Customs Border and Protection show, and a significant number of those “others” are Cubans.
Just what we need: more Cubans.
Citing CBP data apparently unavailable at the agency’s website, BBC Mundo divulged this unwelcome fact: “Almost 40,000 Cubans arrived at the southern border between November 2021 and February 2022. In the entire previous fiscal year, between October 2020 and October 2021, the figure was just over 38,000” [“It’s a silent Mariel”: the thousands of Cubans who use Nicaragua as a route to reach the United States, by Lioman Lima, March 22, 2022].
At the border, those Cubans show up hidden in large groups, CBP reports [Multiple Large Groups Encountered by Del Rio Sector Border Patrol, April 4, 2022]:
In that first group, caught near Normandy, the rest were Peruvians, Colombians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans.
Second group: Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Third group: The same. Oh, and Ghana.
Thus far this fiscal year, which began October 1, agents in the Del Rio sector alone caught 152,271 “migrants” — leftist code for illegal aliens.
