What did Donald Trump claim about immigration on 8 May 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
So, Mexico now, for the first time, has been taking people back to Honduras and Guatemala, and El Salvador, and other countries, and for the first time, not big enough numbers but they're getting bigger, they're getting bigger.
Not the first time. Mexico had been returning migrants to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador for years, about 56 thousand returns in 2011 and 83 thousand in 2018.
Mexican authorities had been returning migrants from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to their home countries for years: about 56 thousand such return events in 2011, rising to 83 thousand in 2018 (Mexico's National Population Council, CONAPO, Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Sur bulletin on gob.mx).
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- 'Make America Great Again' campaign rally in Panama City Beach, Florida.
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