Migration crisis: The dangers of illegal migration in Senegal

A popular passage used by thousands of Senegalese migrants to enter the US via flights to Nicaragua and a land route through Mexico has become practically “impossible.”
Local authorities have banned travel agents from selling plane tickets from Dakar to Nicaragua.
Airports in Casablanca and Madrid - key transit hubs for the route - imposed transit visas on Senegalese passport holders earlier this year.
The crackdown comes after US authorities arrested Senegalese migrants 20,231 times for crossing the border illegally from July to December. This is 10 times more than arrests in the last six months of 2022, according to US Customs and Border Protection.
Sky News interviews a man who made the journey to America and talks about how difficult it was. Others we spoke to tried to travel via Libya, where they were tortured and enslaved before being returned to Senegal.
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