In the first five months of 2026, 75,750 Mexican nationals have been deported from the United States to Mexico, representing a 35 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the most recent update from the Migration Policy Unit of the Ministry of the Interior on the “returns” of people from the neighboring country.
The largest increase was reported last May, when just over 18,000 Mexicans were deported, compared to more than 13,800 in the same month of 2025.
In 2026, U.S. immigration authorities returned 14,690 people in January; 14,143 in February; and 14,936 in March.
April saw a decrease to 13,936; May, the most recent month for which the report shows an increase to 18,009 deported Mexicans, also saw a decrease.
The main destination for repatriation also changed. In the first four months, Mexicans were primarily deported by land to border crossings in Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas; in May, the main return destinations were by air, primarily Chiapas, followed by Villahermosa, Tabasco, and the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA).
Of the more than 18,000 Mexicans were deported; 15,771 were adult men and 1,547 were adult women. An additional 691 were children or adolescents, mostly boys.
The majority of those deported in the first five months of 2026 were from Chiapas (1,740), followed by Guanajuato (1,423), Veracruz (1,391), Guerrero (1,383), Oaxaca (1,240), and Michoacán (1,155).
In contrast to the statistics for returns from the United States, the number of Mexicans returned from Canada reached its lowest level since 2020.
Only four people were returned between January and May of this year, compared to 458 during the same period in 2025 and 903 during the same months in 2024.
