Nearly 75% of people arriving at Kino help centers in 2022 reported violence or persecution as their main reason for migration, up from 39% in 2020 and 67% in 2021 That’s what an immigrant aid organization in Nogales, Sonora, found.

About 20 percent of those arriving in Kino said they had moved for economic reasons, 4 percent said they had moved to reunite with family, and 1 percent cited other reasons, the report said. the report said.

The nonprofit recently announced 2022 Congressional Year-end Report Includes information from intake surveys completed by each person receiving the service.

In 2022, an average of 500 immigrants per month will come to our center in Nogales, Sonora, bringing the total to over 6,000 in one year.

Migration trends have changed in recent years. Historically, the majority of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization have come from Mexico and the Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), but in recent years there has been a shift from outlawed countries to the United States. There has been a significant increase in the number of immigrants coming to Far, far away as political, civil and economic instability grows in the Western Hemisphere and around the world.

In Arizona, the percentage of people from Mexico and the Northern Triangle arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border will increase from 92% in 2020 to 47% in 2022 and 40% in the first three months of 2023 increased to Immigrants from countries such as Cuba, Peru, and Colombia, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

Regulations such as Title 42 of the Public Health Policy were originally introduced because of the pandemic and used to expel migrants from the country, especially against immigrants from Mexico and the north, who could not reach the border. impeded their ability to apply for asylum in the United States. A triangle that was easy to banish.

“Title 42 prevents people fleeing violence and persecution from seeking asylum at the border and forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico or cross the border without permission and attempt to be deported back to Mexico. forced,” the report said.

The report adds that Title 42 has empowered criminal networks that smuggle people across borders. This is because more immigrants are looking for alternative ways to cross borders, a sentiment shared by many immigration experts.

Although the proportion of Mexicans arrested at the border was lower than in previous years, the number of internally displaced persons inside Mexico is still rising, as reflected in the Quino demographic. .

In 2022, 78% of immigrants arriving in Keno were Mexican and 22% were non-Mexican, whereas in 2021 and 2020, only about 58% of immigrants were Mexican.

A disproportionate number of people in Kino hail from Guerrero, Mexico, where levels of violence have risen. In 2022, 53% of Quino’s Mexican citizens were from Guerrero.

About 2,500 people from Guerrero arrived in Keno during the year, while only 371 and 303 from Michoacán and Chiapas, the second and third largest states, respectively. In 2020, only 19% of Mexicans were from Guerrero.

Another key finding of the report is that violence against women and girls continues to be a major driver of migration from Mexico and Central America. Women frequently report experiencing sexual violence en route to the U.S.-Mexico border or while entering the U.S., the report said.

In a two-week period last summer, 55% of those arriving in Kino were women or girls, and 87% cited violence or persecution as the main reason for their migration. They reported domestic abuse, threats, sexual assault, rape and kidnapping, the report said.

The report also details accounts of the mistreatment and dangers of immigrants while traveling to the border and waiting in Mexico, as well as their experience of deportation and deportation from the United States, and the Kenoborder Initiative’s recommendations to Congress. I’m here.

The number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without prior authorization fell in January after President Joe Biden announced an expansion to Title 42 that included deportations from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti. Numbers since October.

The Biden administration has also expanded the path of legal immigration to people in those four countries, as well as slightly to people from other countries who are allowed to enter to apply for asylum.

Customs and Border Protection data released Friday afternoon showed the number of people arrested at borders nationwide in January fell to its lowest level in almost a year. The number of people using immigration services in Pima County also fell in January.

The county received a record number of immigrants in December, surpassing 15,000, but the number dropped significantly in January and continues to drop in February.

With record numbers in December, the county was “totally overwhelmed” and was dangerously trying to keep people away, said county spokesperson Mark Evans. We worked with the city to increase the number of beds using This would have been impossible had the immigrant surge continued in January and February, when the city was filled with visitors to the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.