The irregular migratory flow from Central America to the United States has increased in recent months, especially from Guatemala and Honduras, said Thursday the spokesman for the United States Department of Security, Luis Miranda, who asked the population not to expose themselves to human traffickers.
In a virtual press conference with Honduran journalists, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), pointed out that his country is “making several flights (with deportees) weekly to all of Central America” because in the last three months there has been “an increase in migration from Honduras and Guatemala.”
He pointed out that in the last two months around “30,000 people” have arrived at the US border, 60% of them did so in family groups, which reflects that criminal organizations are looking to “take advantage of people by telling families that it is time to travel”.
Miranda stressed the importance of reduce the flow of people trying to reach the United States illegallyand lamented that many of them are “believing the lies of criminals, smugglers, coyotes.”
Smugglers tell people that “this is the time to travel” and that if they travel as a family “they will not be deported, which is not true,” said the official, who asked migrants “not to expose themselves to putting in the hands of criminal organizations.
“The coyotes put people in danger,” said Miranda, who stated that the Irregular migration is controlled by “cartels” that “they are carrying out violence, extortion, kidnappings, abuses and problems of all kinds” against migrants.
He also assured that for these organizations migration “is a business, they are not looking to help someone get to the United States, they are looking for how they can extort them and squeeze them as much as possible,” a situation that “endangers” migrants. .
Following the end today of the validity of the Title 42, the US deported “more than 85,000 people“, among Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to Mexico, said Miranda, who warned that those who enter the United States irregularly run the risk of “being banned from entering” that country for more than five years.
He added that the US treats the issue of migration in a “responsible, humane and cooperative” manner, which is why it is doing “a lot” to expand the “legal channels”, and recalled that his country assigned “more than 65,000 additional visas for temporary workers and non-agricultural sectors for this year”.
At least 20,000 of the additional visas were assigned to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
“We work with our allies throughout the hemisphere to address the (immigration) issue in a responsible manner by applying our laws, but to do so, of course, in a humane manner that recognizes that in certain cases we have to expand legal avenues.” , Miranda narrowed.
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