A US Border Patrol vehicle drives along an unfinished wall structure on the US-Mexico border. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 30The lack of consequences for illegally crossing the US border provokes an increasing number of migrants to enter the country, said the head of the US Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz. If migrants are told that they can be released (after illegally crossing the border), then you can see their number increase,» Ortiz said, quoted by Fox News.
In the US, the driver of the truck in which the migrants died faces the death penaltyAccording to him, the flow of illegal migrants in the United States will continue to increase. According to the US Border and Customs Service, the influx of illegal migrants detained while crossing the south -western borders of the United States, for 10 months of fiscal year 2022 (from October 2021 to July 2022) amounted to 1 million 946 thousand people. The migration flow from Latin America reached r maximum figures against the backdrop of economic difficulties in the states of the region, exacerbated by the pandemic. The Mexican authorities deported more than 114 thousand traveling illegal immigrants from the country in 2021, the number of people detained by the US authorities at the border with Mexico over the past nine months has exceeded one million people. />Dozens of Russians are trying to get to the US through Mexico, said the Consul General
