Report sheds light on deported migrants [Video]

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The government of Mexico has published a report shedding light on how many migrants it is deporting to their countries of origin, and from which states Mexicans who the U.S. deports are coming.

Mexico deported 8,612 foreign nationals during the first three months of 2024, the Ministry of the Interior reported last week. Ninety-two percent (7,697) were deported to neighboring Guatemala and to Honduras; 437 were repatriated to Venezuela, whose citizens have shown up at the U.S. border by the thousands since 2021. No other country received more than 100 repatriated citizens from Mexico during that period.

On the other hand, the Mexican government says it issued 3,551 permanent resident cards to refugees in the first quarter of 2024. More than 3,000 went to migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America and Cuba. Two-hundred and thirty Venezuelans who …