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Here's something about our recent asylum seekers

that you might not know.

While the vast majority of the recent arrival

is somewhere around 85%, according to the New Yorker, are. of the

majority of the recent arrival is somewhere around 85% according to the New Yorker are from Latin American countries a growing number are coming from African nations

flying to Central America and then traveling through the southern border into the United States.

This is in part due to the crackdown on migration in Europe.

On December 20th, the European Union signed a pact to facilitate the deportation of asylum seekers

and limit migration to the EU block. Many far-right politicians in various countries there

are also running and winning on the promise to curb migration.

Here in the US, the number of African asylum seekers apprehended at the southern border jumped from around 13,000 in 2022 to over 58,000 last year,

according to the New York Times.

The majority of those migrants were from Mauritania, Senegal, Angola, and Guinea.

Joining me now to discuss these trends and the special needs of African

migrants and how his organization is responding to meet them is Amaha

Kasa, founder and executive director of African communities together, which is

national group supporting African immigrants,

where the headquarters in Harlem,

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