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On 15 March 2020, the Guatemalan government confirmed its second case and the first COVID-19 death in the country. an 85-year-old man who arrived from Madrid with his family nine days earlier. [14] The same day, the Guatemalan government cancels all public events and prohibits agglomerations of more than 100 people.
More than 10,000 children have been deported from the U.S. and Mexico back to Guatemala. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service has opened a new office in Guatemala City to help them.
Guatemalan officials are analyzing surveys by the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration showing from which parts of Guatemala the most migrants departed, hoping to prepare those ...
According to the 2010 US Census, the Guatemalan-born population totaled 1,044,209 people, comprising 2.1% of the overall immigrant population of the US, and making Guatemala the 10th highest sender of immigrants in the US. [1] Up until the 1960s, Guatemalan migration to the US was negligible. [2]
Many U.S. neighbors, including Mexico and the Bahamas, have said they do not want to receive deportees from third countries.. In 2022, more than 40% of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally came ...
Immigration to the United States from Guatemala truly increased in 1977 with a total of 3,599. This was an 82% increase since the year prior. [7] For the most part, this was due to the lack of stability within Guatemala's agricultural economy. For many Guatemalans, the agricultural economy was the job market for the disadvantaged.
Guatemalan security agents arrested 25 mostly active police officers implicated in a human trafficking network that operated along a route used by mostly U.S.-bound migrants, Interior Minister ...
Low-income migrant workers tend to live in crowded housing, perform strenuous work, and eat poorly, all of which put them at higher risk of contracting COVID-19. The share of immigrant workers living in poverty is high in several OECD countries (32 percent in Spain, 25 percent in the United States, and 30 percent in Italy in 2017).