Deportation of immigrants declines

The number of immigrants who have been deported to Mexicali has declined 53.5 percent in 2017 compared to last year, a Mexican agency reported.

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute, or INM in Spanish, reported 7,130 immigrants deported to Baja California’s capital city from January to July.

In the same period of last year, the city received 15,338 deported immigrants.

A same tendency has been reported statewide, but to a lesser level. Deportations to Baja California decreased from 34,829 in 2016 to this year’s 24,963, or 28.3 percent.

And a similar path was observed nationwide — from 128,790 in 2016 to 89,863 in 2017, or 30.2 percent.

Mexicali was sixth nationwide with the highest amount of deported immigrants, the agency said.

U.S. authorities deported 1,486 minors through Mexicali during the January-July period this year, the fourth largest amount of the border.

Of those minors, 412 were 12-17 years of age and 76 were up to 11-years-old.

According to the report, 86 percent of deported teenagers were unaccompanied while 90 percent of deported minors were accompanied.

The state of Baja California has become home to 27.5 percent of deported adult immigrants to Mexico as a whole, as well as to 33.3 percent of all minors returned to the country. However, only 9.6 percent of the adult immigrants deported and 13.7 percent of minor immigrants deported from the state were born in Baja California.