U.S. and Mexico immigration officials are seeing an increase in the number of Ukrainians and Russians attempting to cross the U.S. border, where they can...
said its agents had 13,240 “encounters” with people from Russia in 2021. So far in fiscal year 2022 , there were 13,808 encounters.
In Arizona, Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot said that his office has seen a “significant” increase of Russians and some Ukrainians since last fall, especially during December. Five months into fiscal year, the total number of “apprehensions is over 120,000, a record for Yuma,” Wilmot said.
Verónica Frescas, director of outreach and community liaison at El Calvario Methodist Church, which assists migrants in El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico, said they are ready. “We’ve only seen a couple of Russians,” he said, adding that the overall number of migrants from other countries, specifically from Venezuela and Nicaragua, is increasing. He acknowledged that they could see more Russians and Ukrainians in the future.
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