U.S. President Donald Trump's administration stepped up deportations of Guatemalans in 2019, doubling the number of migrants sent back from the
United States a decade earlier, data from the Central
American country showed on Friday.
Trump has made cracking down on illegal
immigration a major policy focus and has continued to press the issue in the run-up to the November U.S. presidential election.
Last year, the United States deported 54,547 people to Guatemala on 486 flights, the highest since at least 2007, according to data from the Guatemalan Institute of Migration.