300,000 Migrants Have Entered Mexico Bound for the US in 2019, Including From Africa, Asia

Some 700 Cubans have joined the migrant caravan as it makes its way north toward the United States, in Tuzantan, Chiapas State, Mexico, on March 25, 2019. Jose Torres/Reuters

About 300,000 migrants from around the globe entered Mexico with the intention of illegally crossing into the United States in the first three months of 2019, according to Mexican officials.

The country’s Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero said at a press conference on April 23 that Mexico had seen an increase in migrants from Honduras and a smaller number from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Cuba along with African and Asian nations, reported local news website Mexico News Daily.