Report: Mexico Will Apprehend More Central American Migrants Than US Kate Sheehy - Fronteras Desk
go to original September 9, 2015

A mother and her children leave a deportation processing center after returning to El Salvador in 2014. (Kate Sheehy)

Mexico is shouldering a growing share of the enforcement of unauthorized migration from Central America’s Northern Triangle: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. This is changing long-standing trends of apprehensions and deportations in the United States and Mexico.

A new report from the Migration Policy Institute shows while U.S. numbers will continue to fall, apprehensions in Mexico will likely increase by about 70 percent in 2015.

Apprehensions in the U.S. increased fivefold between 2010 and 2014, reaching a peak with the crisis of unaccompanied children from Central America last year. Up until 2014, U.S. apprehensions were increasing much faster than in Mexico.

MPI's report predicts that relationship will reverse and Mexico will apprehend more Central American migrants in 2015 than the U.S.

The report shows apprehensions in the U.S. have drastically decreased since 2014, while Mexico’s numbers have continued to rise.

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