Migrants turning back due to tighter border security, CBP memo shows

President Donald Trump’s promised borderline crackdown appears to beryllium influencing groups of migrants looking to participate the United States illegally.

Internal Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) memos obtained by Fox News bespeak that 2 groups of migrants precocious ended their journeys to the U.S. and turned astir to instrumentality to their location countries.

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Honduran officers encountered a radical of 23 migrants antecedently headed for the United States. The individuals hailed from Honduras, Venezuela, Panama and El Salvador.

Honduran officials brushwood migrants antecedently headed for the U.S., Feb. 5, 2025. (CBP)

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According to the CBP memo, upon interviewing the migrants, officials learned that they had entered Mexico done the country’s borderline with Guatemala. However, they decided to crook astir aft "learning astir the multi-agency unit information connected the Southwest Border successful societal media and done household members successful the United States."

In its memo, CBP besides noted that the migrants surrendered to Mexican authorities earlier being sent backmost to Guatemala wherever they boarded buses headed to Honduras.

CBP elaborate a Feb. 3 incidental successful different interior memo obtained by Fox News successful which the Honduran authorities encountered a radical of 26 migrants. These migrants were besides headed for the U.S., but turned astir erstwhile they learned astir the accrued information and opted alternatively to instrumentality to their countries of origin.

Honduran officials brushwood migrants antecedently headed for the U.S., Feb. 5, 2025. (CBP)

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The migrants successful this radical were seemingly from Venezuela and Cuba. They were initially turned distant by Nicaraguan migration officials and sent backmost to Honduras, but aft a treatment betwixt the 2 nations, they were allowed to transverse into Nicaragua arsenic they made their mode backmost home.

President Donald Trump focused overmuch of his 2024 run connected illegal immigration, vowing to instrumentality a wholly antithetic attack from erstwhile President Joe Biden. While campaigning for his 2nd term, Trump often appeared with families who mislaid loved ones to amerciable migrant transgression oregon fentanyl.

Following November’s election, determination were reports of amerciable immigrants leaving the U.S. oregon choosing to "self-deport" anterior to Trump’s instrumentality to D.C. retired of fears of his imaginable policies.

The archetypal portion of authorities that President Trump signed successful his 2nd word was the Laken Riley Act, named for a nursing pupil who was killed during a jog connected the University of Georgia’s field by an amerciable immigrant. Jose Ibarra, who antecedently had been arrested but ne'er detained by ICE, received a beingness situation condemnation for sidesplitting 22-year-old Laken Riley.

President Trump is besides taking a caller attack to detaining amerciable immigrants. Under President Trump’s bid connected "Expanding Migrant Operations Center astatine Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity," amerciable immigrants volition beryllium housed with the 15 past detainees remaining successful the infamous facility.

Officials brushwood antecedently U.S.-bound migrants from Venezuela and Cuba, Feb. 3, 2025. (CBP)

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who joined an migration raid past period successful New York City, confirmed that a 2nd formation of amerciable immigrants near for Gitmo up of her visit.

Noem antecedently said that lone "the worst of the worst" of amerciable immigrants would beryllium sent to the installation successful Cuba, which could yet beryllium location to up to 30,000 migrants.