More than a thousand people, most of Mexican origin, have been caught over the past six years by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers trying to impersonate U.S. citizens at crossings. international organizations belonging to the El Paso Field Operations Office.
According to official US Government data, released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Immigration Project, three people were discovered in fiscal year (FY) 2018, up from 133 in FY-2019, 159 in FY-2020, 270 in FY-2021, 231 in FY-2022, 172 more in FY-2023 and 40 during the first ten months of FY-2024. Of the 1,008 people, 381 were considered “inadmissible” as a “United States citizen: false statement” at the El Paso border ports. Another 65 cases were discovered at the border port of Ysleta, 29 in Columbus, New Mexico, 19 people tried to enter through Santa Teresa, six more through Presidio, four through Tornillo and in the rest of the cases the port of entry was not specified. . Of the total, 881 were Mexican, and among the rest were migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela and Haiti. According to TRAC data, 780 cases were of single adults, 140 more were unaccompanied girls or boys who presented themselves with false US citizenship documents, another 59 cases were of girls or boys traveling within a family unit and whose parents They claimed that they had been born within the United States and in 29 more cases they were adults traveling as a family. In 622 cases, accelerated removal was ordered, in 140 there was accelerated deportation because credible fear was not proven, in 133 cases “withdrawal” was given, in 109 cases a notice to appear was given and in four cases conditional release was allowed. –three at the port of entry and another after a deferred inspection. 201 cases of “false oral claim of US citizenship” also appear in CBP statistics, but all occurred between fiscal year 2012 and fiscal year 2016. In this type of “unadmissible” entry, 178 people from Mexico and the United States were documented. The rest were from Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Venezuela, Belize, Nicaragua, Cuba and Kenya. Three cases were minors traveling with their parents, three more cases were adults who were part of a family unit, 23 were unaccompanied minors and 172 more were single adults arriving at ports of entry. According to data shared by TRAC, since FY 2016, 13,023 people have been detected in all official ports of entry to the United States who made a false claim to be citizens of that country, 3,176 of them in FY-2023. and 829 during the first ten months of FY-2024. Of the total, 11,616 were of Mexican origin, followed by 299 people from Guatemala, 171 from Belize, 145 from El Salvador, 118 from Honduras, 117 from Jamaica and 105 from Ecuador.
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