President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history. But as he prepares to send millions of immigrants back home, countries in Central and South America are ill-equipped to receive an influx of vulnerable immigrants escaping violence, famine, economic instability, and more.
Some countries in Latin America, most prominently Venezuela, refuse to accept deportation flights from the U.S., complicating mass deportation plans. That is why, as Trump assumes office in late-January, the focus will be on countries like Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, which have the largest number of people living illegally in the U.S., after Mexico, a new analysis by the Associated Press suggests.
