U.S. Deports 31,727 Hondurans

CAMR director Valdette Willeman told journalists that two U.S. government airplanes landed Monday in the northern city of San Pedro Sula with 105 deportees aboard.

She said U.S. authorities appear to have diminished the deportation of family groups, but did not provide detailed figures.

“I think the U.S. government is studying the situation of each minor (who crossed the border), and the (automatic) repatriation of family groups is suspended,” Willeman said.

The Honduran government estimates that at least 90 unaccompanied minors and 240 families from the Central American country enter the United States each day from Mexico.

U.S. and Mexican authorities together deported more than 70,000 undocumented Honduran migrants in 2013, according to CAMR, a non-profit based in San Pedro Sula.

The Honduran Foreign Ministry estimates that over 1 million Hondurans live in the United States, including both documented and undocumented migrants.

Those migrants annually send home roughly $3 billion in remittances.