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Fearing deportation, migrants in US send more money home

Central American migrants in the United States sent home around 20 percent more in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, official data showed this week, a trend economists said reflected their fear of deportation by President Donald Trump’s istration.

Nearly one-quarter of the GDP of impoverished Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua is made up of money sent from US-based migrants to relatives in their homelands.

Guatemala’s central bank said this week it had recorded $5.64 billion in remittances in the first quarter, a 20.5 percent increase over the same period in 2024.

Honduras’s central bank, for its part, said the country received $2.62 billion, a 24 percent increase on the first quarter of 2024.

El Salvador and Nicaragua do not yet have complete data for the first quarter, but in January and February, remittances to both countries increased by 14.2 percent and 22.6 percent respectively, compared to the same months in 2024.

El Salvador received $1.4 billion and Nicaragua $909 million in the first two months of 2025, according to their central banks.

In Nicaragua, the figure includes remittances not only from the United States, but also from Costa Rica ($68.2 million) and Spain ($48.6 million).

The president of Guatemala’s central bank, Alvaro Gonzalez, attributed the increase in remittances to migrants’ fear of being deported from the United States.

Guatemalan economic analyst Erick Coyoy took a similar view, telling local media that the surge was “an anticipated reaction by migrants to the perceived risk of deportation.”

It is unclear, however, whether they sent more money home to ensure that, if deported, they would be able to access their savings or whether it was to help their relatives benefit from their situation in the United States while they can.

Trump returned to the White House in January on a promise to conduct the biggest wave of migrant deportations in US history.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/fearing-deportation-migrants-in-us-send-more-money-home/#google_vignette

That's is the best option. Planning for life after deportation is the best option

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Ok

Wahala yi ti Poju nao

ok

Nomatter what happens... Nigeria can never be better than the US...not under this white substance sniffing druggie.

My brother is forever grateful for leaving this country and he's doing well for himself over there.

Ok

Until Trump announces reward of thousands of dollars to his anti migrant clampdown police if they meet the daily target of arresting specified amount of undocumented immigrants for deportation his policy will not work as expected.
His police will not be hunting migrants up and down as people think.

We no dey see anything here o

I thought pastor ibiyomie said it's hotter over there in America.

If you're an illegal alien then it's hotter for you, bcus you already know for sure you'll be deported.

But if you're legally living in America then you're in heaven

The fear of deportation is hotter than hell itself.

Orejiela

E no go beta for rangers n bibalo

Abokinmanoma:
Wahala yi ti Poju nao

It's a lesson to everyone to make their country work. The days of running to a foreign land after ing nonsense in your country are over

Good option

If nah for naija,guys go use the money flex

sending more dollars home yet the naira keep falling why

e the fear of trump the beginning of wisdom

Good thinking

COMRADES are speechless, Donald Trump my guy, everybody go and develop your own country oo, no joke about it

Better for them. At this point they should be living and moving lite.

Freshtruth:
E no go beta for rangers n bibalo

waiting u carry am

Always have a contingency plan

EbeTinx:
Nomatter what happens... Nigeria can never be better than the US...not under this white substance sniffing druggie.

My brother is forever grateful for leaving this country and he's doing well for himself over there.

So why is your life stuck here. Ain’t worthy of America? Or you have no value to offer there so you rather stay here and be useless

Fear of Trump is the beginning of wisdom

osazsky:
waiting u carry am

over 2.5 na only them remain for my ticket

Oya oya send am come

OK ,


as long as they are sending it to the right places .






Princess Faith Chukwu

EbeTinx:
Nomatter what happens... Nigeria can never be better than the US...not under this white substance sniffing druggie.

My brother is forever grateful for leaving this country and he's doing well for himself over there.

Of course! However the richest Nigerians will defer! They will never leave Nigeria for anywhere else in the world

EbeTinx:
Nomatter what happens... Nigeria can never be better than the US...not under this white substance sniffing druggie.

My brother is forever grateful for leaving this country and he's doing well for himself over there.

we no really send your brother for here

teeteepeejay:


So why is your life stuck here. Ain’t worthy of America? Or you have no value to offer there so you rather stay here and be useless

Someone that has never touched an International port before.