Migrants from Mexico have been crossing the southern border in large numbers for decades. More recently migrants from Central America and South America have decided now is the time to make the long, dangerous journey to the US. But it’s a testament to just how completely Joe Biden has bungled the border crisis that word is now being spread even in Africa: The US border is open.
The young men from Guinea had decided it was time to leave their impoverished homeland in West Africa. But instead of seeking a new life in Europe, where so many African migrants have settled, they set out for what has become a far safer bet of late: the United States.
“Getting into the United States is certain compared to European countries, and so I came,” said Sekuba Keita, 30, who was at a migrant center in San Diego on a recent afternoon after an odyssey that took him by plane to Turkey,…
