Mexico detained more than 250,000 migrants in 2021
January 3, 2022
From January to November of 2021, Mexican authorities detained 252,256 migrants, breaking the country’s yearly record for migrant detentions. Mexico’s released these statistics which show a 206 percent increase from the 82,379 migrants detained in 2020. The detention numbers from 2020 are an outlier because the coronavirus pandemic slowed regional migration. Still, the 2021 detention statistics show the largest number of migrant detentions since 2001, which was the first year Mexican migrant statistics became available.
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