San Pedro Sula, Honduras
the authorities migratory of The United States deported this Wednesday to 148 Hondurans who entered this country irregularly, the Presidential House of the Central American nation has reported.
The returnees returned to the city of San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras, where they were received at the Returned Migrant Care Center (CAMR), according to a statement from the Presidency.
CAMR director Julia Medina said most Honduran migrants who have returned in recent weeks have been deported by authorities in the United States and Mexico, and a smaller number by those in Guatemala.
“In recent weeks we have seen an increase in the return of unaccompanied children, who are mostly coming from the border between Mexico and the United States by land and air,” Medina stressed.
So far in 2021, the CAMR of Bethlehem, of San Pedro Sula, Has received about 6,900 migrants among unaccompanied children and family units (parents who have traveled with their children), according to official figures.
“Although compatriots are warned not to leave the country, they always continue to migrate, not by caravans, but by small groups in the early hours of the morning as was done before,” he noted.
Medina indicated that Honduran migrants returning from the United States, Mexico, and other countries receive support from the Bethlehem WARC.
“We have Government programs that provide seed capital so that they (the migrants) can undertake and generate income, so that they do not make that decision to leave the country,” he explained.
He stressed that “kidnapping, human trafficking, assaults and robberies have not stopped these atypical migration flows that have increased in recent weeks,” despite the covid-19 pandemic.
“There have been cases of entire families kidnapping them and paying the ransom from the United States,” the official said.
“I’M NOT GOING AGAIN”
“I’m not going back, or trying,” said Honduran Paola Cardona, who returned to her country today with her two-year-old son after remaining in the United States.
He noted that it was “very hard and bitter this trip. It holds up very hungry. All the way they saw us like dogs. It was twelve days that all this lasted.”
“Going with children is not a guarantee of crossing the border, I do not want to remember this path and I do not want to cross it again,” said Cardona while comforting his son, who is deteriorating in his health due to the ” poor nutrition that he had to suffer during the trip “.
He also said that human traffickers, known as coyotes, “paint beautiful things for one, but being there is the hardest thing for one.”
“Those who plan to leave, don’t come back, don’t try, because it’s money they’re going to throw away, they’d better invest it in their family,” the Honduran warned.
He added that “Thank God I am in my country. I missed my land catracha and most importantly I came with life and health.”
“One is treated badly all the way. Children are the ones who suffer the most. In my case, my child has a bad stomach because he doesn’t eat all that way,” Cardona said. EFE