'I'm talking hundreds of Mauritanians were standing outside our door here. We had no clue what language they spoke. We tried to speak Spanish. And all we heard was Pulaar, Pulaar, Pulaar.'
"I'm talking hundreds of Mauritanians were standing outside our door here. We had no clue what language they spoke. We tried to speak Spanish. And all we heard was Pulaar, Pulaar, Pulaar."A native Spanish speaker, Mateos Alvarez can usually help the migrants and day laborers who come to the Dayton Day Labor Center looking for work.
Between four and six million people speak Pulaar, mostly in Mauritania and Senegal. Alvarez doesn't. Struggling to understand the new arrivals, Alvarez finally went to, a nearby nonprofit that's part of the Migrant Response Network, to find an interpreter.
"It's been happening for many, many, many years," Dia says."Everybody who follows the news and what's going on around the world knows what's going on in Mauritania."Through the interpreter, some Mauritanian migrants told Alvarez that they were escaping government repression."From what they explain to me, it's just that the current government is being repressive against them, retaliatory for not supporting the government," Alvarez says.
Before Alvarez found an interpreter, he thought that the Mauritanians were coming from Venezuela along with other migrants fleeing economic collapse there. Instead, he learned that they'd left their native Mauritania and flown into Nicaragua, where they joined the Venezuelans and Colombians heading north. When they arrived in Texas, the Mauritanians even rode on buses with the Latin American migrants to Denver, but then skipped the Mile High City and went to Aurora.
Before the 2023 influx, the U.S. government estimated that 8,000 foreign-born Mauritanians were living in the entire country, 3,000 of them in Ohio. But then racial tension flared in Mauritania in May after a Black man, Omar Diop, died in police custody. reported that upwards of 8,500 Mauritanians had crossed the border from Mexico between March and June, with many learning about a route through Nicaragua via videos on TikTok and other social media.
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