Looking at the increase in deportations, Guatemala opens a center for immigrants who return without anything from the United States and Mexico

Guatemala It opened this Monday A new care center for consulting immigrants From the United States and Mexico, with the ability to serve 150 people.

The new area is located in the center of Guatemala and is charged, according to the government, with services to Find job opportunities Migrants have returned compulsory to the Central State of America.

It also intends to provide access to social programs that help reintegrate the deportees, as well as free psychological and social care.

It was attended by President Guatemalato, Bernardo Arvalo de Leon, and his vice president Karen Herrera.

“In this country there will always be a place for you,” said Arvalo de Leon regarding migrants, during his participation in the opening of the place.

He added: “In this center, our brothers and sisters will find emotional support, job opportunities that appreciate their talents, experience, and all kinds of support. Rebuilding their lives“.

The new area of ​​migrants who have been deported as a center of attention and registration (CAR) was under the management of the Guatemallan Immigration Institute.

Almost 18,000 deportation immigrants

In the first five months of the year, the United States was deported to 14125 Guatemal and Mexico to another 2761 to become the total 17886 is mandatory to the country’s lands in Central America, according to official data.

In 2024, the number reached nearly 75,000 Guatemallan APORTED AIR from the United States and Mexico, as well as by Earth from the nation headed by Claudia Shinbom.

Every year, according to the accounts of international organizations, around it 300,000 Guatemalion is trying to migrate Regularly for the United States to search for better living conditions away from the poverty and violence that lives in their country of origin.