The state of Puebla has received more than 16,000 repatriated people since Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States for a second time, revealed Sergio Salomón Céspedes Peregrina, commissioner of the National Migration Institute (INM).
The federal official provided an update on the repatriation of Mexicans from January 20, 2025, to August 13, 2026. During that period, the White House ordered the return to Mexico of 271,193 people who were in the United States irregularly, an average of 475 people per day, amid raids organized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Federal Ministry of Culture participates in 77 programs and has a direct presence in 93 municipalities, with an investment of nearly 80 million pesos.
He explained that 171,508 people entered the country by land, while another 99,685 arrived on one of the 816 flights that landed at the airports of Villahermosa, Tapachula, Tulum, Mérida, Oaxaca, Morelia, Campeche, and San Luis Potosí, as well as Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) and Mexico City International Airport (AICM).
One repatriated person from Puebla every hour
According to statistics presented by INM commissioner Sergio Céspedes, at least 16,031 people from Puebla have been repatriated during the last 571 days, the period that has elapsed since Trump’s second administration began at the White House.
The figure represents an average of 28 people from Puebla repatriated every day, or more than one every hour, mainly from so-called “sanctuary cities,” such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New Jersey, where most migrants from Puebla are concentrated, with an estimated population of 1.5 million.
The Institute also revealed that Chiapas is the state with the highest number of repatriated people in Mexico, with 23,915. Guanajuato ranked second, with 21,069, while Guerrero completed the top three with 20,115.
Veracruz reported another 18,003 repatriated people; Oaxaca, 17,810; Michoacán, 17,113; Puebla, 16,031; State of Mexico, 15,338; Tamaulipas, 12,972; San Luis Potosí, 10,491; while the remaining 22 states accounted for a combined 98,336.
Source: milenio
