El Salvador, U.S.
Strengthen Cooperation On Migration
SAN SALVADOR -
El Salvador and the United States have inked
a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to speed
up deportations and improve the exchange of
information on detainee immigrants,
Salvadoran authorities said Thursday.
The agreement was reached Wednesday at the
second meeting of the Bi-national Working
Group on Removals and Migration Topics,
where migration issues were discussed.
Both sides agreed to speed up the issuing of
traveling documents for the detainees to be
repatriated and to schedule a visit of
Salvadoran officers to the border between
Mexico and the United States.
Alonzo Pena, deputy assistant secretary of
Operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, said that "we are working
together with the Salvadoran government for
faster repatriating the Salvadorans at the
detention centers."
During the meeting, both sides also
discussed alternatives to immigration
detentions of Salvadorans in the United
States.
In 2009, 19,175 Salvadorans were deported
from the United States, according to the
Immigration Office in El Salvador. This
represents a 5 percent decrease compared
with 2008, when 20,203 Salvadorans were
deported.
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