Mauritanians are using WhatsApp, Instagram and other channels to guide fellow migrants along the route.
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Mauritanians are using WhatsApp, Instagram and other channels to guide fellow migrants along the route, which makes stops in Turkey, Colombia, El Salvador and Managua, Nicaragua, where they are whisked onto a bus by smugglers to cross the US-Mexican border, The new arrivals likely now outnumber the estimated 8,000 foreign-born Mauritanians already living in the US, about half of whom are in Ohio.
People line up against a border wall in Arizona as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border from Mexico.Unlike the massive influx of Mauritanians who arrived in the 1990s as refugees after the Arab-led military government began expelling Black citizens, the latest surge of migrants is not escaping any natural disaster, coup or sudden economic collapse, suggesting that the power of social media is reshaping migration patterns.
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