President Donald TrumpThe promised border seems to have influenced groups of migrants who want to enter the United States illegally.
The inner customs and number of patrol (CBP) memos that received Fox News indicates that two groups of migrants recently completed their trips to the US and turned to return to their home countries.
On Wednesday, February 5, Honduran officials came across a group of 23 migrants who had previously embarked on the United States. Individuals welcomed Honduras, Venezuela, Panama and El Salvador.
Honduran officials encountered migrants who had previously embarked on the United States, February 5, 2025. (CBP)
According to the CBP memoranda, after talking to migrants, officials learned that they had entered Mexico across the border of the land with Guatemala. However, they decided to turn after “learning about the safety of multi-agencies on the southwestern border on social media and through family members in the United States”.
In their memorandum, CBP also noted that migrants surrendered to Mexican authorities before sending them back to Guatemala where they boarded the buses that headed to Honduras.
CBP described in detail the incident of February 3 in the second inner memorandum received by the Fox News in which the Honduran authorities encountered a group of 26 migrants. These migrants also headed for the US, but they turned when they found out about increased security and instead decided to return to their country of origin.
Honduran officials encountered migrants who had previously embarked on the United States, February 5, 2025. (CBP)
Migrants in this group were obviously from Venezuela and Cuba. Initially, they were distracted by Nicaraguan immigration officials and sent back to Honduras, but after the discussion between the two nations, they were allowed to go to Nicaragua as they returned home.
President Donald Trump focused most of his 2024 campaign. illegal immigrationpromising that a completely different approach from former President Joe Biden will be. During the campaign for his second term, Trump often appeared with families who lost their loved ones for illegal immigrant crime or fental.
After the November elections, there were reports on illegal immigrants who left the US or decided to “self-de-deap” before Trump’s return to DC for fear of his potential policies.
The first legislation that President Trump signed in his second term was Laken Riley Actnamed after a nursing student who is an illegal immigrant killed while running at the Georgia University campus. Jose Ibarra, who was previously arrested but never closed Ice, was sentenced to a life prison sentence for killing 22-year-old Laken Riley.
President Trump also uses a new approach to detention of illegal immigrants. According to the order of President Trump about the “spread of the Center for Migrant Operations at the Guantanamo Navy Station in full capacity”, illegal immigrants will be located with the 15 last detainees who have remained in the infamous facility.
Officials meet with previously related migrants from Venezuela and Cuba, February 3, 2025. (CBP)
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who joined the immigration raid in New York last month, confirmed that the second flight of illegal immigrants left Gitmo on the eve of his visit.
Noem said earlier that only the “worst” of the worst “illegal immigrants would be sent to the Cuba facility, which could eventually be at home up to 30,000 migrants.
