United States Customs and Border Patrol is facing a new wrinkle in their efforts to control and manage the flow of migrants across the U.S.’s southern border: a sudden influx of asylum seekers from countries in Africa.
The Associated Press reports that migrants from Africa are flocking to the U.S.-Mexico border after flying into south and and central American countries, escaping human rights abuses and violent dictatorships on their home continent. Most, border patrol says, are from the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola, as well as Cameroon. The AP adds that, in recent weeks, border patrol has processed asylum seekers from Ethiopia, Eritriea, and the Sudan.
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