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Posted on 07/14/2014 6:08:45 PM PDT by kristinn
A planeload of single mothers and children arrived in this gang-ridden Honduran city on Monday, ferried back on a U.S.-chartered flight as an unprecedented surge of Central American migrants has overwhelmed U.S. border enforcement officials in recent months..
It was the first in a series deportation flights that are expected to leave the United States for Honduras carrying only women and children in the coming days.
A total of 18 mothers, 13 girls and nine boys, who were being held at a U.S. detention center in Artesia, N.M., were scheduled to be on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter Monday. But two passengers fell ill and didn't board, officials said.
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Their return to Honduras came at President Obama’s direction, according to an official at the Department of Homeland Security, who requested anonymity in discussing the development.
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