Migration to the United States: "An almost continuous movement regardless of the measures taken"

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Precarious housing for 10 months in the migrant camp in Matamoros, on the border between Mexico and the United States.

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By: Julien Coquelle-Roëhm

8 mins

In the United States, Joe Biden is accused of having facilitated migration to the Mexican border.

The country could experience one of the largest flows for 20 years according to Alejandro Mayorkas, Minister of Internal Security.

More than 100,000 people in an irregular situation were arrested in February.

And the fate of thousands of isolated children placed in border centers is of particular concern.

Analysis of the situation with Isabelle Vagnoux, professor at the University of Aix-Marseille, specialist in relations between Latin America and the United States. 

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Isabelle Vagnoux

is co-director of the book

Les Amériques

(

Robert Laffont

). 

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