A total of 265 people were deported this Friday from the United States To Guatemala on three flights – two operated in military planes and one charter – after the announcement of the government of Donald Trump From a migrants expulsion operation, local authorities reported.
A total of 80 Guatemalans (31 women, 48 men and a teenager) They arrived in the Central American country on a first flight, the Guatemalan Institute of Migration said in an updated balance. In a second aircraft, the same number of people (63 women and 17 men) were embarked.
Additionally, a third private flight arrived with 105 people on board (11 women, 89 men and five minors).
In total, 265 Guatemalans were deported, according to the authorities.
“We can confirm that during the night, two planes of the Department of Defense made repatriation flights from the United States to Guatemala,” the Pentagon confirmed.
Neither the United States or Guatemala’s government have specified whether there are some of the 538 “illegal immigrants” whose arrest was announced on Thursday night by the White House.
The deportees were taken to the return center of returnees, located in the Air Force, next to the Guatemala City International Airport, where Vice President Karin Herrera visited them, without access to the press.
For its part, the government of Guatemala He recently announced that he prepared a Plan to receive deportees with the authorization of shelters and labor reintegration programs, among other actions.
Trump promised to act against irregular immigration during his campaign and, after assuming the presidency at the beginning of the week, declared the state of “national emergency” on the border with Mexico and signed a save of migratory decrees.
The Republican president pointed during his campaign against migrants, describing them as “wild”, “animals” or “criminals”, and promised the largest deportation campaign in the history of the United States, a country where it is estimated that about 11 million of people in an irregular situation.