Not Only Can United States Citizens Get Deported from Mexico, They Do Gardenia Mendoza - Fox News Latino
go to original December 17, 2015

As of October of this year, 2,079 American citizens had been deported — the majority of them through Baja California, with other border states like Tamaulipas and Sonora also seeing frequent cases.

Americans account for about 10 percent of undocumented people who Mexico deports – the total number is 127,149. A large majority of people expelled from Mexico are from Central America, which saw almost 120,000 people deported from Mexico, most of them returned to Guatemala and Honduras.

The number is minimal compared to how many Mexicans are deported from the U.S. – about 173,564 of them in the first 10 months of 2015 – but it’s an unknown phenomenon that Mexico deports Americans in its country even for just having an expired visa.

What is unusual, too, is that while the number of Mexicans being deported from the U.S. decreased dramatically in five years – from 468,699 in 2009 to 88,042 in 2013, the last time the figures were released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – the number of Americans deported from Mexico has increased. There were 841 Americans deported in 2009, Mexico figures show, a fraction of the more than 2,000 deported in 2015.

"The reasons behind the expulsions are related to administrative misdeeds,” Monica Mora, of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology which collects the data, told FNL. “Principally tourists with expired visas, and those who remain without a residence permit or who are surprised while violating in some way the laws in Mexico."

It is so little known, in fact, that when it happens Americans in Mexico are left puzzled and shocked.

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