More than 154,000 migrants, mostly from Cuba, entered Honduras irregularly during 2022, 778.1% more than in all of 2021, according to figures from the National Institute of Migration (INM) consulted this Thursday by EFE.
40.3% (62,250) of the immigrants who entered Honduras between January and November 16 are of Cuban nationality, 33.2% (51,295) Venezuelans, 9 9% (15,232) Ecuadorians, 5.1% (7,993 ) Haitians and 1.4% (2,099) Colombians, details the Honduran institution.
The remaining 10.1% (15,582) of immigrants come from countries such as Africa, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Uruguay, among others, he added.
In all of 2021, Honduras intercepted a total of 17,590 migrants, mostly from Haiti and Cuba, which is 778.1% less than those detained so far in 2022.
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54.4% (824,063) of immigrants are men, 27.1% (41,904) women, 10.1% (15,634) boys and 8.3% (12,850) are girls, the Migration Institute specified.
Of the total foreigners intercepted, 54.8% (84,6568) were between 0 and 30 years old, and 45.2% (69,795) were over 30 years of age.
The Migration Institute also indicated that 73.3% (113,171) of immigrants entered Honduras through the municipalities of Danlí and Trojes, department of El Paraíso, and 23.8% (36,856) through Choluteca, both bordering Nicaragua. .
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October is the month that more immigrants have entered Honduras irregularly with 30,775, and January in which the fewest entered, 1,766, the institution said.
Last week, the Honduran Humanitarian Network asked the Honduran Parliament to approve a decree to extend the amnesty on the payment of an administrative fine to migrants in a situation of mobility who enter the country irregularly.
The Humanitarian Network, which brings together more than 50 organizations, asked the National Congress to take into consideration the recommendations that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published in relation to “the non-sanction for irregular entry or stay as a basis for advancing from the expeditious manner possible in this approval.”
The immigration amnesty was published on August 3 in the Official Gazette, three months after its approval in the Honduran Parliament, and prevents irregular migrants from paying a fine of more than $200. AND
