Honduran Deportees from
USA Near 5,000
The number of Hondurans
deported from the United
States reached 5,000 on
Wednesday, according to
figures from the CAMR
(Center for Assistance
to the Returned Emigre)
The entity estimated
that the record
registered in 2007, when
those deported totaled
29,272, will be
surpassed the current
year.
Around 35,000
deportations are
expected by the end of
2008, due to the US
increasingly restrictive
migratory policies.
According to CAMR data,
with the most recent
flight that arrived on
Tuesday, the number of
repatriated people
reached 4,942, of whom
around 600 are women and
around 40 are minors.
Doris Gutierrez,
National Congress
member, regretted the
government lack of
attention to the issue,
because the so announced
Policy of Support to the
Emigres has not been
implemented yet.
She highlighted that
this project was
announced almost two
years ago, to reinsert
those deported from the
United States in the
local labor market and
avoid that more national
citizens leave the
country.
Unfortunately, many of
those returned to
Honduras try to leave
this Central American
nation again illegally.
Edith Zavala, executive
secretary of the
National Forum for
Migrations to Honduras,
asserted that national
people migrate because
great number of citizens
does not have jobs that
allow them accessing
essential services, as
health and education
According to
calculations, 1,050,000
Hondurans, 13.6 percent
of the national
population lives abroad.
Of the 80,000 Hondurans
that emigrate annually,
94.7 percent, around
75,760 go to the United
States and 75 percent,
equivalent to 60,000
people are deported from
Mexico. |
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