The Nicaraguan newspaper Confidencial reported yesterday that up through September of 2025, a total of 6,095 Nicaraguans had been deported from the US back to Nicaragua. That number is more than double the combined number (6,016) of those deported through the whole of 2023 and 2024. As of September 30, the US carried out 54 Nicaragua-bound flights compared with 26 such flights in 2024 and only 24 in 2023.
While the country’s president, Daniel Ortega, insists Nicaragua is welcoming its citizens back “with open arms,” the newspaper reports that deportees are received at the Managua airport at a remote area used for private flights so that “they have no contact with passengers departing and arriving at the terminal.” Arriving Nicaraguan citizens are given a medical examination, food, and transportation back to their former homes — even to “remote areas such as Waspam or Quilalí, located in the northern Caribbean and northern Nicaragua.”
Some Nicaraguan deportees are being sent to other Central American countries, such as Costa Rica, Panama, and El Salvador, so the total number of Nicaraguans deported this year is probably greater than the 6,095 reported by Confidencial.
For more, see the Confidencial website.