The Peña Nieto government has expelled more than 233,000 Hondurans

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

More than 233,000 Hondurans expelled Mexico under the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office (December 1, 2012) after winning the federal elections (July 1, 2012) thanks to a candidacy launched by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

In five and a half years, unlike in the United States, Mexico has become the country that most Hondurans have expelled, according to statistics from the Consular Observatory and Migration of Honduras and Observatory of Legislation and Migration Policy of Mexico

Of the approximately 376,634 deportees, 62% were sent by the National Institute of Migration (MNI) of Mexico and 38% (143,240) by the Immigration and Control Service. United States Customs (ICE).

Most of those expelled from Mexico arrived by bus across the Guatemalan border at the United States Migrant Aid Centers. tornado (Camr) located at Omoa and San Pedro Sula.

It is a minimum percentage, less than 3% on average that Mexican immigration authorities move in planes, for example, in 2015 only 2%, in 2016 the 4% and in 2017 the 2% .

Although Mexico has increased evictions, up to more than 56,000 in 2015, US President Donald Trump has crushed Peña Nieto as his country has to pay for the wall. started building on the border.

Peña Nieto, who is about to cede power, and the four presidential candidates (Ricardo Anaya, Jose Antonio Meade, Jaime Rodriguez and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ), who oppose the elections in Mexico on Sunday, are against the construction of the wall

The wall at the US border or more drastic immigration measures in Mexico that the new president could establish they will not stop the migration of Hondurans trying to caress the American dream every day.

"I will try to reach the US It's the second time I've done it, there's nothing to stop us in." is not easy, we must avoid migra, narcos and criminals who attack on the road, "said a Honduran who identified himself in the name of Juan Francisco Benítez and who was yesterday at the Gran Metropolina Central to Take

Benítez (28 years old) said that he was working in agriculture in Colón and decided to return to the United States because he wants to "improve the conditions of life".

Benítez recalled that in the middle In 2016, the Mexican immigration authorities detained him in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, after more than a month of having crossed "obstacles of all kinds" since he crossed the border of Guatemala.

Emigrants interviewed by LA PRENSA explained that a large portion of those who were expelled by the Mexican immigration authorities "are people who travel in groups or are abandoned by cheating on coyotes. "

Deportations made by Mexico, which they were 43% in 2017 compared to 2016, they rebounded by more than 60% in the first half of 2018, according to figures from Honduran Foreign Affairs.