US Deports Over 332K Undocumented Mexican Migrants in 2013 Mizo News
go to original January 15, 2014

MEXICO CITY - More than 332,000 undocumented Mexican migrants, of whom nearly 16,900 were minors, were deported by the US in a “safe, humane and orderly” fashion in 2013, the National Migration Institute, or INM, said Tuesday.

“From January to December 2013, the institute received 332,614 deported Mexicans via the nine repatriation points located in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Sonora,” the INM, a government secretariat agency, said.

Some 16,853 deportees, or 5 percent of the total, were minors, of whom “2,834 were met by a relative or guardian, while the rest, 14,019, were taken in by the INM with ‘unaccompanied’ status”, the INM said.

Of the minors under age 18, 14,530, or 86 percent, are females and 2,323, or 14 percent, are males.

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