In the Encuentro interview with Julio Villagrán, the researcher and consultant, Celia Medrano, mentioned that in the last five presidential terms there have been 360,000 Salvadoran migrants detained in the United States.
“In El Salvador we are talking about a population of 6 and a half million inhabitants, we are proposing that 991 were detained in 2023 at the border, of every 100,000 Salvadorans 1,000 have been detained. explains the researcher
In addition, there is a 250% increase in compatriots living in the North American country, according to the census of that country in 2021.
“From 2000 to 2021, the population of Salvadoran origin increased 250%, going from 710,000 to 2.5 million, not only migrants born in El Salvador, but also those born in the US who have family ancestry in El Salvador.” Medrano highlights
Given this, there is an increase in deportations from the United States, in 2023 alone 11,613 deportations were carried out, worldwide the number of Salvadoran refugees increased in 2023, as for asylum seekers in the first semester By 2023 there were up to 142,000 applicants, most of them are in the United States.
“The number of deportations from the US has increased. In 2021 there were 4,863, in 2022 there were 8,951 and in 2023 there were 11,613 deportees, it is not true that fewer are being deported from the US… Of Salvadoran refugees in the world, only in the first half of 2023 the figure rose to 62,248… Of asylum seekers of Salvadoran origin throughout the world, in the first half of 2023 there were 142,000” Celia Medrano pointed out.
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