A ‘radical shift’ at the border is making things tougher for Biden – CNN

(CNN)There’s a major detail missing from many conversations about the rising number of migrants coming to the US-Mexico border.

Decades ago, the vast majority of migrants attempting to cross the border between ports of entry were Mexican. A few years ago, most came from the Central American countries known as the Northern Triangle: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

But now, according to Border Patrol statistics, the number of people coming from outside those places — from countries such as Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela — is growing fast.

David Bier calls it a “radical shift” and a “new phenomenon that no one is talking about.” Bier, the associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, pointed out this change in a recent thread on Twitter. It’s a telling detail, he says, that reveals a lot about what the Biden administration is facing at the border, and why the situation has been so difficult to solve.

via www.cnn.com

Maybe if they’re coming from Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua and Venezuela they’ll be fleeing socialism rather than bringing it with them. That would not be all bad.