Mexico Sends Over 100 Honduran Migrants Back Home - Migration Authority

MEXICO CITY (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th April, 2019) The Mexican National Institute of Migration, a governmental unit supervising migration, has deported over 100 Honduran citizens, including 63 minors, the institute said.

As many as 104 Hondurans were deported on Saturday over violations of the rules of staying in the country, the institute specified. The plane carrying the migrants back to their home country departed from the Mexican state of Veracruz.

The move came amid Washington's pressure on Mexico to reduce the flow of migrants trying to pass into the United States through its southwestern border with the Latin American country.

US President Donald Trump has said that the United States will be forced to partially close its border with Mexico if the situation does not change.

Around 300,000 migrants crossed into Mexico in the first three months of 2019, according to the country's Interior Ministry. The head of the Mexican National Institute of Migration, Tonatiuh Guillen Lopez, said on Tuesday that Mexico had returned around 15,000 migrants, mostly from Central America, back to their home countries over the past 30 days.