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 News from Around the Americas | February 2006 
United States Deported More than 50,000 Children to Mexico in 2005
 Periódico 26
| | Mexican children attend the rally of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate of Mexico's left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), in the southern Mexican town of Metlatonoc. Obrador has put poverty at the heart of a presidential campaign in Mexico, where a fifth of the population cannot afford to eat properly but a small elite enjoys fabulous wealth. He promises to give priority to the poor if he wins the July 2 election. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) |
More than 50,000 minors of Mexican and Central American origin were deported by US immigration authorities during 2005 and received by the Mexican National Immigration Institute (INM).
The INM reported that Mexican children and adolescents were returned to their families and the remaining minors were deported to their respective countries, according to a report published in the Los Angeles, California newspaper La Opinion.
Although the organization did not disclose comparative statistics, the figure is evident of the large number of minors that everyday are attempting to immigrate to the US.
The INM reported that during the period spanning from January to October 2005, it received a total of 39,100 minors (under 18 years old) from the US Border Patrol and other US government agencies.
During those 10 months, a total of 17,632 of those minors received room and board from shelters operated by Mexico’s National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family and other alternate shelters.
The INM also revealed that it sheltered 11,129 minors of Central American origin that were subsequently repatriated to their countries of origin.
Although the INM did not provide precise information about the nature of the care provided, it did confirm that they were transported to “their places of origin.”
The report breaks down the nationality of the children received by the INM as follows: 4,897 were of Guatemalan nationality; 4,093 from Honduras; 2,113 Salvadorians; and 26 from Nicaragua.
The Institute also noted that 7,357 minors were deported accompanied, while 3,772 traveled alone.
A few months ago, human rights organizations warned about the rapidly increasing number of minors that are illegally immigrating to the US as a consequence of poverty and a lack of employment in their countries of origin. |
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