President Joe Biden’s migration policy has extracted roughly one in ten Nicaraguan working-age men into the U.S. job market and consumer economy, leaving the country under the firm control of a left-wing dictator.
The data is found at the Department of Homeland Security, which shows that 334,000 Nicaraguan single adults crossed the border in search of work since Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.
If 75 percent of the Nicaraguan migrants were men, then Biden and his aides have extracted 10 percent of Nicaragua’s working-age men. The extraction rate leaves few young men in Nicaragua to grow the economy or to push back against the dictatorial government that is choking the country’s democracy and economy.
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In 2021, about 160,000 Nicaraguan migrants were living in the United States, legally or illegally. Under Biden’s tenure, that number has likely tripled to 500,000 in 2024.
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In December 2023, Reuters reported:
Nicaraguan migrants sent relatives back home record remittances this year through November, data from the country’s central bank showed on Wednesday, fueled by massive waves of migration leaving the Central American nation in recent years.
In a statement, the bank noted a record haul of about $4.24 billion in remittances for the 11-month period, 47% more than the amount sent home during the same period last year.
In 2023, the Biden-era remittances boosted the nation’s economy by 33 percent, or almost double the 2020 gain under President Donald Trump, according to the World Bank.
Some migrants from Nicaragua have been deported under Mayorkas in 2024. But Mayorkas is importing more than 1.3 million migrants — including men from Nicaragua — via the quasi-legal “humanitarian parole” pipeline that he set up in 2022.
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However, Nicaragua has opened its main airport to migrants from around the world, ensuring a steady inflow of global migrants who then move into Mexico before crossing the U.S. border.
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