- Aissata Sall was scrolling through WhatsApp in May when she first learned about the new route to the United States. For Ibrahima Sow, the discovery came on TikTok a few weeks later.
- By the time their paths crossed at the tidy one-story brick house in Cincinnati, they had encountered hundreds of other Mauritanians, nearly all of them following a new path surging in popularity among younger migrants from the West African nation, thanks largely to social media.
- “Four months ago, it just went crazy,” said Oumar Ball, who arrived in Cincinnati from Mauritania in 1997 and recently opened his home to Sow, Sall and more than a dozen other new migrants. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing.”
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FILE - In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the U.s., sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, on June 17, 2018. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Monday, May 22, 2023, reversing a Nevada federal judge’s unprecedented decision more than two years ago that struck down a felony deportation law as unconstitutional and discriminatory against Latinos. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)
