It's the Brian Laio Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

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, of the 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.

They're also in DC and Philadelphia.

Omaha, thanks so much for coming on with us.

Welcome to WNYC.

Good morning, Brian.

Very glad to be with you.

And before we dig into some of this recent news and invite callers in, can you first

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