Tegucigalpa.
A total of 307 immigrants from Honduras, one of the world’s poorest countries, were deported Monday from the United States and Mexico, the Central American National Migration Institute said.
Immigration authorities in Mexico have deported 172 Hondurans and 135 in the United States, the Migration Institute said on its social networks.
Hondurans deported from Mexico arrived in the country with five buses and were received at The center of attention for returned migrants (CAMR), in the municipality Omoa, in the Caribbean country, where they registered immigration, he added.
Deportations “continue on land to the country from Mexican immigration authorities,” the institute said.
Migrants receive medical care, food, a hygiene kit and were interviewed to include them in social programs and job creation and opportunities.
The state entity also indicated that today there were 130 men and five women, all Hondurans deported from the United States.
Hondurans returned to ToncontÃn International Airport in Tegucigalpa, the capital, by plane from Alexandria, Virginia.
“All come with a negative result of covid-19,” and the Honduran immigration authorities have activated “all protocols on biosecurity and control of migrants for their attention,” said the National Institute for Migration.
According to Honduran authorities, more than 350 human traffickers, known as “coyotes”, were captured in the country between 2017 and 2020.
Some of the human traffickers were part of the caravans of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States in 2018, according to Honduran police.
A new caravan of Hondurans, who would leave for northern Honduras on Friday, is being promoted on social media in hopes of reaching the United States, when Joe Biden has already assumed the new US president on January 20th.
Prior to the announcement of the caravan, the authorities of the countries of Northern Triangle of Central America and Mexico They are meeting today at Corinth, on the border between Honduras and Guatemala, to discuss illegal migration.
Migrants trying to leave by caravan, a way that has been taking place since October 2018, claim to leave their country due to lack of jobs 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 in November last year.