Illegal Immigrants Deported To Mexico By Plane Hits A High
A record 23,384 illegal Mexican immigrants voluntarily accepted flights back to their homeland from Arizona this summer under a repatriation program created by the United States and Mexico.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that the number of volunteers in 2010 was more than double the previous year and easily surpassed every annual total since the Mexican Interior Repatriation Program started in 2004.
A joint operation of ICE, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, the program was created to reduce the number of deaths among illegal border crossers and to combat human smuggling.
Captured immigrants in southern Arizona are returned to their homes deep in Mexico instead of being dropped at border towns where they might repeat efforts to unlawfully enter the United States.
All told, more than 116,000 illegal immigrants have been removed from the United States in the repatriation program's six years of operation. The Mexican consular office in Phoenix said 84 percent of this year's volunteers were male, and the total included 963 juveniles.
Program costs this year are estimated at nearly $15 million, Picard said.
The final flight for 2010 departed for Mexico City on Tuesday with 130 passengers. From there, participants received bus tickets to their home states in southern or central Mexico. –AZ Central
A record 23,384 illegal Mexican immigrants voluntarily accepted flights back to their homeland from Arizona this summer under a repatriation program created by the United States and Mexico.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that the number of volunteers in 2010 was more than double the previous year and easily surpassed every annual total since the Mexican Interior Repatriation Program started in 2004.
A joint operation of ICE, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, the program was created to reduce the number of deaths among illegal border crossers and to combat human smuggling.
Captured immigrants in southern Arizona are returned to their homes deep in Mexico instead of being dropped at border towns where they might repeat efforts to unlawfully enter the United States.
All told, more than 116,000 illegal immigrants have been removed from the United States in the repatriation program's six years of operation. The Mexican consular office in Phoenix said 84 percent of this year's volunteers were male, and the total included 963 juveniles.
Program costs this year are estimated at nearly $15 million, Picard said.
The final flight for 2010 departed for Mexico City on Tuesday with 130 passengers. From there, participants received bus tickets to their home states in southern or central Mexico. –AZ Central
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