Currently up to one in five passengers flying out of airports near the U.S. southern border appear to be migrants. Enilria runs the numbers on the difference between arrivals and departures each month from specific airports and finds people leaving and not coming back. For El Paso,[T]he reported imbalance of outbound passengers versus inbound passengers was a staggering 16,000 or about 533 per day. In September these migrants were apparently 1 out of every 8 passengers flying out of ELP and it’s growing steadily if you graph it out on a 12 month rolling basis. Highlighting the number of migrants flying out of airports in the southern United States shouldn’t be seen as anti-immigration.

Source: New York Times January 19, 2024 20:36 UTC