In San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras, 38 Hondurens, including 19 children, landed carrying $ 1,000 debit cards from the US government and the offer of being able to request legal entry into the country
You United States sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and from Colombia Back to their countries on Monday (19), in the first flight funded by the government than the Trump government is calling “voluntary deportations.” In San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras, 38 Hondurens, including 19 children, landed from the chartered flight carrying $ 1,000 US government debit cards and the offer of one day could request legal entry in the US. Experts believe that self -support supply will only attract a small portion of migrants who are already thinking of returning, but it is unlikely to stimulate high demand. The offer was accompanied by highly released migrant arrests in the US and the sending of a few hundred Venezuelan migrants to maximum security in El Salvador.
‘You save the cost of the flight’
Kevin Antonio Posadas, from Tegucigalpa, had lived in Houston for three years, but was already thinking of returning to Honduras when the Trump government announced its offer. “I wanted to see my family and my mother,” said posed, who added that the process was easy. “Just make the request (through the CBP Home app) and in three days you can,” he said.
The flight left Houston on Monday. “It’s good because you save the cost of the flight if you intend to leave.” Posadas said he didn’t fear deportation and that he liked to live in the US, but for some time he had been thinking of returning home. He said he would eventually consider accepting the US government’s offer of allowing those who call themselves to request legal entry in the United States.
In a flying statement on Monday, US internal security secretary Kristi Noem said: “If you are here illegally, use the CBP Home application to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home. If you do not, you will be subject to fines, prison, deportation and can never return.”
‘We will support them’
26 more migrants aboard the flight were returning home in Colombia, according to a statement from the US internal security department. Honduras Foreign Minister Antonio García said the Honduran government will also support migrants who return with $ 100 in cash and another $ 200 credit in a government-managed store that sells first-need products. Among the migrants who arrived voluntarily on Monday were four children born in the United States.
García, who met the migrants who arrived at the airport, told him that they have been in the US without the necessary documents for legal immigration or residence has been increasingly difficult, that things are getting more hostile and that they fear going to work. Still, the number of US -deported Hondurens so far this year is below the pace of last year, said Hondura Immigration Director Wilson Paz.
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Although about 13,500 Hondurens were deported from the US this year, the number was over 15,000 until this season in 2024, he said Peace. He did not expect the number to increase much, despite the Trump government’s intentions. Some would continue to request self -support because they feel their time in the US is over or because it is getting harder to work, he said. “I don’t think there will be thousands of people who will apply for the program,” said Peace. “Our responsibility is that they come in an orderly manner and that we support them.”
*With information from Estadão Content and Associated Press
Posted by Fernando Dias
Source: Jovempan
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