Infographic | Apprehensions of Migrants Increasing in the United States and Mexico

Over the past 16 months, the United States has experienced a surge of migrants seeking to enter the country at its Southwest border. While migrants have long sought sanctuary in the U.S. for a variety of reasons, experts have attributed recent increases in migrant flows to the economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “You've got just a lot more people out of work and suffering because of the economic impact and that probably increases, surely increases, the pull factor,” said Mexico Institute Director Andrew I. Rudman. 

With this surge in the United States has also come an increase in migrants to Mexico - particularly unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle. In this infographic, the Mexico Institute explores these trends in apprehensions of unaccompanied minors from the Northern Triangle during 2020 and 2021.