Tegucigalpa.
A total of 307 migrants from Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world, were deported from the United States and Mexico on Monday, the Central American country’s National Institute of Migration reports.
Mexican immigration authorities have deported 172 Hondurans and people from the United States to 135, the Migration Institute reported on its social networks.
Hondurans deported from Mexico entered the country in five buses and were joined by the Attention center for returned migrants (CAMR), in the municipality Omoa, in the Caribbean of the country, where they carried out immigration registration, he added.
The deportations “overland to the country are continuing on the part of the Mexican immigration services,” the Institute said.
The migrants receive medical care, food, a hygiene kit and were interviewed to include them in social programs and create jobs and opportunities.
The state entity also indicated that today there were 130 men and five women, all Hondurans deported from the United States.
The Hondurans returned to Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, the capital, by plane from the city of Alexandria, Virginia.
“They all come up with a negative result for covid-19,” and the Honduran immigration authorities activated “all biosafety and migration control protocols for their attention,” said the National Migration Institute.
More than 350 human traffickers, also known as “coyotes”, were arrested in the country between 2017 and 2020, according to the Honduran authorities.
According to Honduran police, some of the traffickers were part of the Central American migrant caravans trying to reach the United States since 2018.
A new caravan of Hondurans, set to depart from Northern Honduras this Friday, is being promoted on social networks in hopes of reaching the United States when Joe Biden has already assumed himself as the new US president on January 20.
Before the announcement of the caravan, authorities of the countries of the Northern triangle of Central America and Mexico They meet today at the Corinto point, on the border between Honduras and Guatemala, to discuss irregular migration.
Migrants trying to leave with a caravan, a modality that has been taking place since October 2018, claim they are leaving their country due to lack of employment and violence, plagues exacerbated by the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the effects of hurricanes Eta and Iota, who hit Central America last November.