Last updated February 25, 2025. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Honduras’s “Irregular” Migrant Encounters (Since August 2022)
Tag: Honduras
Migrant Encounters from Central America and from the Andes
Last updated August 28, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Migrant Encounters from Mexico plus El Salvador plus Guatemala plus Honduras, and From Elsewhere
Last updated July 8, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Citizens of Honduras: CBP Encounters At and Between Ports of Entry
Last updated July 8, 2024. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Honduras-Frontera Comalapa: La ruta de la trata
Publicado por Quinto Elemento Lab el 28 de febrero de 2024.
The southern Mexico border town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas is a hub for trafficking of Honduran migrant women, with the complicity of officials in both countries.
Honduras – Reporte de Situación de Movimientos Mixtos No.5 – Enero 2024
Publicado por ACNUR el 19 de febrero de 2024.
Statistics and information about protection risks faced by people transiting Honduras.
“Do I Have to Come Here Injured or Dead?”
Published by the New Yorker on January 28, 2024.
An excerpt from an upcoming book by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer, telling the story of a Honduran woman whom the Trump administration separated from her sons in 2017.
El colapso de Danlí
Publicado por ContraCorriente el 8 de septiembre de 2023.
A town near Honduras’s border with Nicaragua is experiencing unprecedented levels of in-transit migration.
Halfway to the U.S.: A Report from Honduras on Migration
Published by WOLA on June 2, 2023.
A report back from a 10-day research trip in Honduras in late April and early May 2023. Discusses migrants transiting Honduras, Honduran migrants, assistance, and policies. (Resumen en español)
Podcast: “We can’t deter our way out of this”: a view from the Honduras-Nicaragua border
Published by WOLA on May 1, 2023.
A podcast recorded by WOLA staff from Tegucigalpa, shortly after returning from two days at the Honduras-Nicaragua border at a time of very heavy migration in transit.
Climate Change and Regional Instability in Central America
Published by the Council on Foreign Relations on September 29, 2022.
“To stave off climate-induced instability in Central America,” the report recommends measures for “both immediate crisis response and long-term instability mitigation.”
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Published by the Border Chronicle on May 26, 2022.
A discussion of U.S. policy toward Central America and “root causes” with Jorge Cuellar of Dartmouth University.
Humanitarian Pathways for Central Americans: Assessing Opportunities for the Future
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on May 25, 2022. (Español)
Proposes alternatives to the perilous journey across Mexico for protection-seeking Central American migrants.
El temor al secuestro no detiene el éxodo de un país atormentado
Publicado por Agencia Ocote el 29 de marzo de 2022.
On-the-ground reporting documents the continued severity of the push factors forcing Hondurans to migrate, even after a change of government.
Hondureños, del sueño americano al tapachulteco
Publicado por Chiapas Paralelo el 17 de marzo de 2022.
Profiles Honduran migrants who have decided to settle in the relative safety of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico after seeing their efforts to reach the United States blocked.
Charting a New Regional Course of Action: The Complex Motivations and Costs of Central American Migration
Explores the factors that drive people to migrate from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, along with the costs and economic implications of that migration.
Investing in Alternatives to Irregular Migration from Central America: Options to Expand U.S. Employment Pathways
Published by the Migration Policy Institute in November 2021.
Options for the U.S. government to build employment-based pathways for Central American migrants.
Strategy to Address the Root Causes of Migration in Central America
Published by the White House on July 29, 2021.
A five-pillar approach to alleviating the causes of migration from Central America. (Link at whitehouse.gov)
DHS Run Amok? A Reckless Overseas Operation, Violations, and Lies
Published by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democratic staff, October 13, 2020.
Finds that State Department-funded CBP personnel operating on the ground in Guatemala apprehended Honduran migrants and transported them back to Honduras in unmarked vans. (Link at foreign.senate.gov)
US supports Honduran government that forces many to migrate as it protects drug trafficking
Published by The Arizona Daily Star on September 12, 2020.
An investigation into how the U.S.-backed government of Juan Orlando Hernández is worsening conditions that cause so many Hondurans to migrate to the United States.
Serve Your People: A Roadmap for Transforming Relations between the United States & the Northern Countries of Central America
“Highlights ways the United States can restore and advance protections for migrants and refugees and use principled diplomacy to stand with civil society forces for change.”
Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Honduras for Cooperation in the Examination of Protection Claims
Published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2020.
Text of the “safe third country” agreement between the United States and Honduras. (Link at federalregister.gov)