AFRICAN MIGRANTS ENROUTE TO THE U.S. BORDER

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La Hora (Guatemala) 6-21-10

[b]Growing emigration from Africa into Mexico

Tuxtla Gutierrez, (Chiapas, Mexico) – Mexico has noticed a rising number of Africans from the Horn of Africa coming across its borders headed to the United States.

The exodus of Africans has expanded while the economic situation in the U.S. has slowed the number of Central Americans migrating to the United States, according to Jorge Humberto Yzar, of the Instituto Nacional de Migracion, in the Mexican State of Chiapas on the border of Guatemala.

In the first trimester of this year, Mexico detected 400 migrants originally from the Horn of Africa entering into Mexico destined to the United States. The Horn of Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. “One hundred and eighty –four of the Africans were from Eritrea, 47 from Ethiopia, and 165 were from Somaliaâ€