Overview
- During the CIDH’s 195th session in Guatemala this week, a coalition of roughly 22 organizations presented case files alleging a consolidated U.S. policy of deporting and transferring asylum seekers to third countries.
- NGO documentation reports about 13,000 non‑Mexican nationals were sent to Mexico in 2025, with 23% women and at least 690 children and adolescents among those transferred.
- Testimony includes reports that U.S. ICE agents handed Guatemalan and Cuban migrants to masked actors who forced them to climb the border wall into Mexico, followed by prolonged, precarious custody inside Mexico.
- Groups detailed severe abuses in receiving states, citing forced disappearance, torture and sexual violence, including a case of 252 Venezuelans allegedly held for months in El Salvador’s CECOT facility before removal to Venezuela.
- The coalition attributes the transfers to a network of bilateral agreements—14 with Latin American and Caribbean countries—and asked the CIDH to issue technical guidance, seek an Inter‑American Court advisory opinion, and conduct in‑country monitoring, with no binding decision reported yet.