Four days before at least nine presidents meet in Mexico to take part in a summit to analyze the migration crisis, the United States announced a “family reunification program” so that migrants from Ecuador who immediate family members with citizenship or permanent residence on US soil,” the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported.
With the measure, announced on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Joe Biden’s administration plans to “slow the pace of irregular crossings,” the statement said.
“Those who do not use the family reunification program or another legal and safe route to reach the United States will continue to face severe consequences,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, quoted in Spanish media.
The United States announces a family reunification process for Ecuadorians
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Which Ecuadorians will be able to benefit from the United States measure
To embrace this legal path to the United States, without being under the pressure of a journey full of dangers and far from coyoteros, which the Biden administration emphasized:
This process, Mayorkas emphasizes, “establishes legal routes for some Ecuadorians to migrate before having to surrender to human traffickers on a dangerous path.”
The Ministry of Public Security of #Panama publishes this video with the testimony of a migrant #Ecuador who asks not to go through the jungle of Darién. So far this year, 18,635 Ecuadorians have passed through this dangerous place on their way to the United States. pic.twitter.com/wSvcEvhSDS
— Christian Sánchez Mendieta (@Sanchezmendieta) May 12, 2023
‘The new migration is no longer about one person, now we see entire families’: irregular exodus of Ecuadorians to the United States
Irregular migration
According to Panama immigration authorities, “more than 248,000 migrants crossed the Darién jungle between January and July 2023, a record number that surpasses records for all of 2022. Of this figure, more than 25,000 are Ecuadorians,” he published on August 1 in El Universo.
More than 25,000 Ecuadorians crossed the Darién jungle in the first half of 2023
In the first eleven months of the 2023 fiscal year, which began in October 2022, “border authorities apprehended nearly 99,000 Ecuadorians, according to Customs and Border Control. “It is an increase of 312% compared to the number of arrests of Ecuadorians recorded in the 2022 fiscal year.”
URGENT: US announces humanitarian early release for Ecuadorians. It is a major progress in preventing irregular immigration through borders. VERY GOOD INITIATIVE, now more than ever the TPS must be a priority for the next administration as parole only applies to residents and… pic.twitter.com/Vj8qgwHyIC
— William Murillo 🇺🇸🇪🇨🇪🇺🌎 (@william_murillo) October 18, 2023
On Wednesday, October 18, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the summit on migration will take place on Sunday, October 22 in Chiapas, a state on Mexico’s southern border.
As host, he will receive his colleagues from different countries: “The presidents of Central America and the Caribbean will be present, confirmed are (Miguel) Díaz-Canel from Cuba, (Gustavo) Petro (from Colombia), Xiomara (Castro) from Honduras, the Prime Minister of Haiti (Ariel Henry), President (Nicolás) Maduro (of Venezuela),” said EFE.
According to López Obrador, the leaders of Ecuador and Guatemala, Guillermo Lasso and Alejandro Giammattei respectively, will also go. Mexico is still waiting for confirmation from two heads of state. (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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