Honduras received more than 94,000 deportees in 2022

Honduras broke a new record in the number of its nationals deported, which in 2022 closed with a total of 94,339 returnees, the National Institute of Migration (INM) reported on Monday.

The data from the government institution indicate that the phenomenon had an increase of 27.5% compared to the year 2021, when 73,967 were received.

The vast majority, 43,699 of those deported arrived in Tegucigalpa on direct flights operated by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The rest comes from other countries en route to the northern power’s southern border.

The data from the 2022 annual report also indicates that some 13,329 minors, including children and adolescents, many of them unaccompanied, were returned to the country, according to the reports.

Deportations also flowed from Central American countries with some 3,104 Hondurans returned to Honduras from neighboring nations; another 245 were repatriated from Europe and other countries in the region, according to the INM.

According to figures made public this Monday, Honduras saw more than 20,372 of its nationals forced to return compared to more than a year ago. Honduran authorities have acknowledged in recent days that they estimate that at least one million of its citizens reside in the United States illegally.

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