Miller said travel agencies in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar are promoting visa-free travel to Europe, and then to Mexico. Once in Mexico, Miller also stressed, the customers are connected to a smuggling organization that will help them cross the southern US border illegally. “They sell complete packages to connect them to a smuggling organization that will then facilitate their movement up to the border,” he also explained. The U.S. is struggling to contain increasing arrivals of millions of migrants crossing the border with Mexico. Arrests of migrants from countries such as Senegal, Mauritania, China, and India entering via Mexico ballooned to 214,000 during the 2023 fiscal year, according to US Customs and Border Protection data.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 03, 2024 13:38 UTC