EFE.- Mexico has deported 2,731 people by air to Guatemala during 2021, including 136 migrants who were obligatorily returned this Thursday from San Luis Potosí.
Deportations from Mexico to Guatemala are usually by land, but in the first eight months of 2021 there have also been returns of migrants by plane, specifically in 22 flights recorded by the Guatemalan Migration Institute.
The 136 migrants deported this Thursday by air from Mexico came from San Luis Potosí, and according to the Guatemalan authorities, 67 unaccompanied minors were traveling on the plane.
According to the Guatemalan Migration Institute, with this Thursday’s flight, a total of 22 have arrived in Guatemala from Mexico in 2021, to deport a total of 2,731 people, including 858 unaccompanied minors.
During the first quarter of the year, Mexico did not send deported flights, but in the last three months (June, July and August) 15 transfers were carried out by air from the North American country.
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Also by land
By land, according to data up to August 19, Mexico has deported 24,233 people to Guatemala so far this year, almost double that of the 13,484 mandatory returnees in 2020. However, in that year the pandemic forced the suspension of deportations for several months.
In 2019, the number of deportees from Mexico to Guatemala by land amounted to 71,000 people.
According to various international organizations and official figures, each year more than 300,000 Guatemalans try to leave their country to reach the United States in search of better living conditions, away from poverty and violence in Central America.
However, many of them are detained in Mexico or the United States and are deported to their country of origin.
According to the local Chancellery, around three million Guatemalans live in the United Statesyes, the majority in irregularity.
In recent weeks, Mexico has also implemented the deportation of migrants by land at the El Ceibo border point, in northern Guatemala, where they do not receive assistance, a situation that has generated various criticisms from Guatemalan deputies for the abandonment in which they remain the returnees.
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