Tegucigalpa.
A total of 307 migrants from Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world, were deported on Monday from the United States and Mexico, the Central American National Migration Institute reported.
Mexico’s immigration authorities deported 172 Hondurans and 135 from the United States, the Migration Institute said on its social networks.
Hondurans deported from Mexico arrived in the country in five buses and were received at the Returned Migrant Care Center (CAMR), in the municipality of Omoa, In the Caribbean country, where they conducted the migratory registration, he added.
The deportations “by land to country continue on the part of the Mexican immigration authorities,” the Institute noted.
Migrants receive medical care, food, a hygiene kit and were interviewed to include them in social and job creation and opportunity programs.
The state entity also indicated that today 130 men and five women, all Hondurans, were deported from the United States.
The Hondurans returned to Tegontigalpa International Airport in Tegucigalpa, the capital, on a plane from the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
“They all come with a negative result from covid-19” and the Honduran immigration authorities activated “all biosecurity and Migration Control protocols for their care,” the National Migration Institute said.
According to Honduran authorities, more than 350 human traffickers, known as “coyotes,” have been captured in the country between 2017 and 2020.
Some of the human traffickers were part of the caravans of Central American migrants who have been trying to reach the United States since 2018, according to Honduran police.
A new caravan of Hondurans, which would leave this Friday from northern Honduras, is being promoted on social media in hopes of arriving in the United States when it has already taken over Joe Biden as the new US president on 20 gener.
Before the announcement of the caravan, authorities of the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico they are meeting today at the point in Corinth, the border between Honduras and Guatemala, dealing with irregular migration.
Migrants trying to leave in a caravan, a modality that has been given since October 2018, argue that they are leaving their country due to lack of employment and violence, scourges that have been exacerbated by the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the effects of Hurricanes Eta and Iota, which hit Central America last November.