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The Mexican government’s National Institute of Migration (INM) on Tuesday deported 136 Hondurans amid the march of the first migrant caravans of the year from Central America to the United States.
“(The INM) carried out the assisted return of 136 Honduran nationals who were irregularly in Mexico,” the institute, which depends on the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), reported on its networks.
The deportation, which the government of Mexico calls “assisted return,” takes place amid the advance of migrant caravans from Central America to the United States.
The Mexican government has acknowledged the actions of the Guatemalan authorities, who on Monday forcibly disbanded a group of more than 6,000 Hondurans planning to reach the United States.
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Without clarifying how long they had been in Mexico, the INM shared footage of the migrants getting off a bus and then boarding a plane belonging to a Magnicharters company before the supervising the National Guard, military and police training corps.
“The flight took off from Villahermosa International Airport, Tabasco, to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, respecting – at all times – their human rights,” said the INM.
In Mexico, migration has increased since October 2018, when caravans with thousands of Central American migrants entered the country to reach the United States.
Faced with Donald Trump’s tariff threats, both countries agreed in June 2019 that Mexico would deploy thousands of elements of the National Guard, a militarily trained police force established by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the southern border.
In one of his latest public events last week, Trump bragged that there are now 27,000 Mexican soldiers “protecting the border” against the United States from migration.
“I wanted great president of mexico, he is a great gentleman, a friend of mine. President Obrador is a man who really knows what is happening, he loves his country and also loves the United States, I want to thank his friendship, ” Trump said. boundary wall in Alamo, Texas.
López Obrador has expressed hope that Joe Biden, who will replace Trump as president of the United States next Wednesday, will deliver on his promise of immigration reform.
The Mexican president has said he will defend the country’s energy sovereignty and in the case of Salvador Cienfuegos, former head of the Mexican army accused by the United States of drug trafficking, but has not clarified whether he has the same immigration policy will continue.