More than 100 Colombians were deported to their country on a flight from Texas

At least 130 Colombians were deported to their country on Thursday, July 18, on one of the 12 flights that leave the Harlingen airport in the state of Texas every week. The migrants arrived at the airport on four buses that stopped at the runway operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

EFE was able to verify from the runway that more than half of the migrants who boarded the plane were women. In addition, all the deportees are young and were handcuffed and handcuffed.

Deported migrants leave from that point

This airstrip is the regular departure point for these types of flights to other countries in the region, such as Honduras, and it is also one of the four points from which migrants with deportation orders depart in this sector of the southern border of the United States.

An immigration official explained to EFE that in the current fiscal year – which began in October 2023 and ends on September 30 of this year – more than 43,000 people entered the United States illegally in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone.

This region is bordered by the Rio Grande to the south and the Gulf of Mexico to the east.

“The main reasons are economic and family reunification,” added an immigration spokesperson.

More than 20,000 children cross alone

Of that number, from the current fiscal year through the end of June, 20,476 correspond to minors who crossed the border without companions.

According to a report by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border of the United States irregularly decreased in June to their lowest level since January 2021.

This decline is attributed to recent asylum restrictions imposed by the Biden administration.

In June 2024, 88,612 arrests of people attempting to cross the border irregularly were recorded. This figure represents a 29% reduction compared to May of the same year, and is similar to that of January 2021, when around 90,000 migrants were detained.

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