Migrant apprehensions and deportations increase in Mexico, but remain below recent highs
Mexico has apprehended and deported more migrants within its borders so far this fiscal year than at the same point in fiscal 2018.
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Mexico has apprehended and deported more migrants within its borders so far this fiscal year than at the same point in fiscal 2018.
Many South Africans are dissatisfied with the state of their democracy. Confidence in some civic institutions declined from 1990 to 2013.
Money sent by immigrants to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa reached a record $41 billion in 2017.
As the number of international migrants reaches new highs, people around the world show little appetite for more migration – both into and out of their countries.
Partisan divide on whether shutdown is ‘very serious’ problem
A median of 23% in eight key countries in Western Europe name immigration as one of the top two problems facing their country.
Americans and Western Europeans have broadly similar views on certain social and political issues. For example, majorities of Americans and Western Europeans see immigrants as beneficial to their economies and support certain rights for gays and lesbians.
Growth in the number of emigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean has slowed – due in large part to a slowdown of people leaving Mexico.
The differences over immigration policy between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union are also evident among backers of the parties.
People with populist views in Western Europe are more likely than those with mainstream views to distrust traditional institutions. While populist attitudes span the ideological spectrum in Western Europe, populist political parties are relatively unpopular in the region.
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