News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, FRI. Dec. 13, 2019: Over a quarter million Latin American nationals were removed from the U.S. in fiscal year 2019, a News Americas analysis of the latest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Fiscal Year 2019 Enforcement and Removal Operations data, released this week, shows. The exact number is 250,912.
Of that number, nationals from Mexico accounted for the largest number of deportees to the region with a whopping 127,492. They were followed by Guatemala with 54,919 nationals sent packing in 2019.
The third largest number of deportees to the region went to Honduras with 41,800.
The other nations with the largest number of deportees – though significantly less than the Top 3 were as follows:
El Salvador – 18,981
Ecuador – 2,253
Nicaragua – 2,240
Colombia – 1,158
Brazil – 1,770
Peru – 571
Venezuela – 327
Costa Rica – 176
Argentina – 130
Bolivia – 64
Panama – 55
Uruguay – 51
Paraguay – 7
