Emily Riley

1 month ago | africasacountry.com | Emily Riley |Caitlin L Chandler

A growing number of Mauritanians—along with other West and Central African nationalities, such as Cameroonians, Congolese, Nigerians, and Senegalese—are illegally migrating to the United States using Latin American countries as their main gateway. Between January and April 2019, the Mexican police arrested 1,934 illegal African migrants, three times more than the previous year in the same period. In November 2023, 900 illegal Mauritanian migrants were detained in the US, pending expulsion.