Overview
- Mexico’s Subsecretariat for Human Mobility confirms direct U.S. flights are delivering Cuban deportees to Tapachula at a pace of two to three per week.
- Officials report 12,000 people were deported from the United States to Mexico in 2025, adding to the current flow into Chiapas.
- Deportees describe arriving without passports or jobs and encountering 90‑day waits at COMAR, which hinders access to money transfers and work.
- A local NGO leader alleges opaque transfers with no agency taking responsibility and estimates roughly 60,000 migrants are stranded in the southern region, notably Haitians and Cubans.
- Individual accounts include longtime U.S. residents separated from families, some removed after minor infractions such as driving without a license, with some first sent to Chihuahua before overland transport to Tapachula.