A preferred passage utilized by 1000’s of Senegalese migrants to enter the US through flights to Nicaragua and a land route via Mexico has develop into virtually “impossible.”
Local authorities have banned journey brokers from promoting airplane tickets from Dakar to Nicaragua.
Airports in Casablanca and Madrid – key transit hubs for the route – imposed transit visas on Senegalese passport holders earlier this 12 months.
The crackdown comes after US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 instances for crossing the border illegally from July to December. This is ten instances greater than arrests within the final six months of 2022, in accordance with U.S Customs and Border Protection.
Sky News interviews a person who made the journey to America and talks about how tough the journey was. Others we spoke to tried to journey through Libya the place they had been tortured and enslaved earlier than being returned to Senegal.
Read extra: https://news.sky.com/story/senegalese-families-mourning-deaths-of-hundreds-of-young-men-trying-to-reach-europe-13136128
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