Latino VoicesImmigration Reformundocumented immigrantLatino Entertainment

Number Of Deportees Returning To The U.S. Is Increasing

More Deportees Are Returning
By 

Editor, Latino Voices

NOGALES, MEXICO - MARCH 9: Immigrants eat at the San Juan Bosco shelter on March 9, 2013 in Nogales, Mexico. The shelter is the largest in Nogales and often houses more than one hundred immigrants per night, including those recently deported from the United States and those about to try and cross into the U.S. illegally. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
NOGALES, MEXICO - MARCH 9: Immigrants eat at the San Juan Bosco shelter on March 9, 2013 in Nogales, Mexico. The shelter is the largest in Nogales and often houses more than one hundred immigrants per night, including those recently deported from the United States and those about to try and cross into the U.S. illegally. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

In February, a speedboat raced toward shore near Boca Raton. After making landfall just south of Camino Real Boulevard, more than a dozen people jumped out of the vessel and scrambled ashore.

Most of the individuals were undocumented immigrants — and four had previously been deported.

With increasing frequency, deported foreign nationals are resorting to smugglers to return to the United States — either by boat or by walking across the Mexican border.

Read more on Miami Herald

|
Submit a tip

Popular in the Community

Close

What's Hot