Nearly two years after President Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Mexico is seeing a small but unusual spike in Afghan migrants who are seeking asylum or traversing through the country
In January 2023, nearly 13,000 people registered applications for asylum in Mexico. Among them were 430 Afghans – the 7th highest nationality and the only nationality from outside the western hemisphere to make Mexico’s top 10 list, according to
, the country’s refugee assistance agency. ’s head, Andrés Ramírez, believes many of the Afghans are headed to the US southern border. “The Afghans are the kind of people that actually want to go to the US, that’s what our reading is because you know that the culture is so different from the Mexican culture,” Ramírez told CNN by phone. Mexico’s asylum authority isn’t the only agency noticing more Afghans heading north.
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